Instruments

Buying Vintage Guitars - If you are a beginning guitar player, you may start out with a new and rather inexpensive model of guitar. That is how most start because they don’t have a lot of money, and they know there is a chance they won’t take the hobby too far. If they were to spend a lot on the guitar, they would be out all of that money. They may be able to resell, but they won

Playing Guitar - More Than A Hobby - When I met my husband I was nineteen years old, and he had been playing guitar for a long time before I met him. He was already very good, and this was something that he loved to do. He loved it so much that it became a part of who he is and how he lives his life. There is something magical that happens when he plays and I don’t

Guitar Strings - For all the advice that I got about buying a guitar for my friends, I learned very little about guitar strings. I had always assumed that the guitar alone determines the sound you get out of it. With an acoustic guitar, the main thing is how the body is constructed and what materials are used. If you had good tone woods, solid construction, and a large enough body to

Guitars and Damaging Effects of Temperature and Humidity Extremes - An acoustic guitar is a remarkable piece of engineering. It is at the same time quite fragile, yet also remarkably strong. The entire structure is built around the need to produce a good sound while resisting the force of approx 180 pounds (800N) of tension exerted from the strings which are trying to pull the head of the .......