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A Guitarist’s Guide to Managing Aging and Overuse Injuries
Playing guitar is a pain. At first, we suffer through blistered fingertips, overstretched tendons, fatigued muscles, and limited range of movement. With practice, those hindrances pass and we play easily. Until we can’t. Acoustic guitarists, like everyone, must manage physiological…
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Gear Review: Pre-War Guitars Model-HD
Julian Lage at 30: A Visit in San Francisco With the Jazz Guitar Phenomenon
Summer NAMM 2017: Faith Guitars and Genzler Amplifiers
At the 2017 Summer NAMM show, in Nashville, Connolly Music Company introduced the new Faith Naked Series dreadnought, a minimally appointed, oil-finished workhorse with a spruce top and mahogany back and sides. At $599, this instrument offers a great value for an all-solid-wood…
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Watch Courtney Hartman (of Della Mae) Fire Off a Fiddle Tune on Bourgeois Guitars’ Tony Rice-Inspired OM: Winter NAMM 2017
Inspired by the Tony Rice tribute D-28 Bourgeois Guitars built and auctioned in 2014, Dana Bourgeois (AG‘s resident Guitar Guru) brings a new OM to Winter NAMM 2017. Watch above as Courtney Hartman of Della Mae (also, check out her excellent new solo EP Nothing We Say) performs a traditional fiddle tune…
Bourgeois Guitars Introduces a Pearl of a New Axe at Winter NAMM 2016
At Winter NAMM 2016, Dana Bourgeois of Bourgeois Guitars unveiled a stunning limited edition presentation version of its L-DBO model, featuring Brazilian rosewood, a gorgeous mother of pearl fretboard inlaid with abalone flourishes, pearl tuning buttons and nut, and other…
Evocative Music from a Unique Instrument on Debashish Bhattacharya’s ‘The Sound of the Soul’
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Ask the Expert: The Delicate Art of Fretwork—and Why It’s Best Left to a Professional
Al Di Meola Takes Classic Beatles Tunes to New Places
After nearly 50 years exploring the most remote destinations on the musical map, Al Di Meola’s homecoming to formative influences The Beatles was always going to involve new languages and fresh perspectives. The travelogue that preceded it, after all, carried…