by admin | Mar 3, 2024 | Blog
A classical guitar is a guitar used to play classical music. It predates the acoustic steel string guitar, electric guitar and bass. If drawn further from the historical side, the ancestor of the guitar is the Vihuela (a stringed instrument from Spain). So what...
by admin | Mar 2, 2024 | Blog
Springfield, MO music store The Acoustic Shoppe has shared footage of this year’s National Flat-picking Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas – held between 13 and 17 September – and it’s an incredible showcase of acoustic...
by admin | Mar 1, 2024 | Blog
A staple of campfire singsongs and mariachi bands, the Spanish or classical guitar is a small-bodied acoustic device with nylon strings.Most if not all guitarists got their start on a classical. They’re perfect for kids to learn on because they can be inexpensive and...
by admin | Feb 29, 2024 | Blog
It’s not just a clever name. An acoustic-electric (aka electro-acoustic) is basically a regular acoustic guitar that you can plug into a guitar amp. Once upon a time, you’d buy a cheap magnetic acoustic guitar pickup and clamp it into the big gaping hole in the...
by admin | Feb 28, 2024 | Blog
Jimi Hendrix regularly tops polls to find the best guitarist of all time. For generations of musicians, he is the cornerstone of the electric guitar – an innovator, and a technically gifted artist who was able to raise the bar at practically every single show.Yet...
