Ever wanted to improve your picking skills? Imagine if you didn't have to. Guitar player Olav Kvern has built a robotic device that fits to an electric guitar and picks its strings for you.The idea started when Kvern was watching a Seattle guitarist he admired, the...
After 10 years of building spruce-topped guitars exclusively. Dominique Field has just completed his 230th guitar with a Canadian red cedar soundboard. The French builder’s last cedar guitar was #163 and made in 2004 for GSI – view Field’s #163 here. Dominique has...
We have a new guitar coming soon from Baltimore-based luthier Ross Gutmeier. And we’re particularly interested to hear that after building double-top and otherwise ‘modern’ guitars for many years Ross is returning to a more traditional approach after spending some...
"I wanted to reflect on some of the things I've learned as someone who has bought and sold a lot of gear," begins YouTuber and gigging player John Nathan Cordy. He estimates this amount being in the £100,000 territory over the years, which is eye-watering but...
Ever wanted to improve your picking skills? Imagine if you didn't have to. Guitar player Olav Kvern has built a robotic device that fits to an electric guitar and picks its strings for you.The idea started when Kvern was watching a Seattle guitarist he admired, the...
Check out this lovely piece on NPR about Leo Brouwer’s legacy, which includes some very interesting details about his life and how that influenced his musical upbringing. Here’s a great quote that I think we all responded to:“To be useful is something incredible,...
Johnny Marr was a recent guest on the Broken Record Podcast. And it found him digging into his past and huge body of work with other artists. But the overarching impression is that Marr's wonder at his role as a guitarist remains the same as it was when he was a...
Check out this great article in Classical Guitar magazine about Scott Tennant‘s Segovia sessions. The CD he’s recording of Segovia’s compositions recorded on Segovia’s 1969 Jose Ramirez. The article tells the whole story of how the CD came to be recorded and features...
Jackson has revealed the second guitar in its American-made series will be the Virtuoso. This alder-body spiritual successor to the Dinky comes nearly a year after the acclaimed Soloist SL3 model and its bolt-on neck construction means it will be offered at a...
Edmund Blöchinger’s “Dome” guitar has a very intriguing back story. So we thought it would be a great piece of information to share with everyone. Among the fascinating details about this instrument, it is notably interesting that the soundboard comes from the spruce...