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In order to help prevent a guitar’s neck losing the fight against the pull of the strings, a metal rod runs usually through it. South Africa’s Rubato Guitars has done away with the truss rod for its first model – named Lassie – instead relyin… Continue reading One-piece carbon fiber guitar goes rod-free
The Goldtop 1957 Gibson Les Paul guitar which Duane Allman used to record “Layla” alongside Eric Clapton, has sold for US$1.25 million at auction, becoming only the seventh guitar in history to sell for more than US$1,000,000.
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Continue Reading Duane Allman’s 1957 “Layla” Gibson Les Paul sells for $1.25 million
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Our top 100 most valuable guitars listing added two more famous guitars last week, when Duane Allman’s 1961/1962 Cherry Gibson SG fetched US$591,000 and the Martin D-45 that Graham Nash played at Woodstock fetched $162,500.
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Continue Reading Duane Allman’s Gibson SG and Graham Nash’s Woodstock Martin D-45 sell at auction
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Zivix launched a compact digital guitar called the JamStik in 2013 that allowed pickers to keep their calluses nice and hard while traveling by chording on real strings. It only had five frets though, and the company announced new models last year with seven and 12 frets for more playing possibilities. Well now the latest JamStik is less of a “Stik” and more like a grown up travel guitar.
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Continue Reading Compact digital guitar gets bigger and better brother
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Back in 2011, Christoph Kemper introduced guitarists to a powerful digital amplifier that could accurately recreate the sounds of any other amp and store loads of them in one place. Four years later, players were offered the ability to switch… Continue reading Kemper takes the Stage with combined Profiler amp and Remote
Five years ago, Fishman’s TriplePlay controller gave us the opportunity to wirelessly tap into an almost infinite world of digital sounds on our laptop. Now the company has unveiled a new version called the Connect that offers a similar exper… Continue reading Fishman reveals MIDI guitar controller for the iPad generation
There are a number of ways to change your guitar’s tone on-the-fly, such as using effects pedals, but if you want to change your pickups mid-song, that’s not so easy. France’s Wild Customs is introducing a novel system at Summer NAMM in Nashv… Continue reading Pickups on a carousel cater for quick change tone
Guitars are already pretty portable instruments. You just throw one in a gig bag and you’re all set. But those long necks can suffer much more than a ding on long journeys, particularly if air travel is involved. So for players who want to ke… Continue reading Novel travel guitar folds down to backpack size for transport
Wood. Specifically, certain types of tone woods; woods that impart a certain tone. That’s what guitars are made of. And occasionally, plastic, or metal, or fibreglass or, well, anything. [_forwardaudio_] built his out of noodles, because, why not?
Well, not completely out of noodles. Epoxy is used to give some …read more
Guitar players can amass quite a collection of instruments, each one offering something that the others don’t. Modular systems like those from Somnium and others let guitarists switch components in and out as they please, but most are still m… Continue reading Modular plastic guitar offers up to 50 different combinations