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Duane Allman's Gibson SG and Graham Nash's Woodstock Martin D-45 sell at auction

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Duane Allman's Gibson SG and Graham Nash's Woodstock Martin D-45

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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Compact digital guitar gets bigger and better brother

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"The Studio is a product we've wanted to launch since the beginning," said Matt Cannon from ...

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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Kemper takes the Stage with combined Profiler amp and Remote

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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→

Fishman reveals MIDI guitar controller for the iPad generation

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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→

Guitar Made from Noodles Glows in the Dark

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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

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Official replicas of Prince's most famous guitar now up for pre-order

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The Cloud Guitar replica by Schecter is available only through the official Prince store, and is ...

As well as being a noted singer, dancer and all-round great performer, Prince was also an accomplished guitarist. Many of his choice instruments perfectly reflected his flamboyant stage presence, but arguably his most famous is the curvy Cloud Guitar. And now you can play one of your very own courtesy of Schecter and the official Prince store.

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Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour sells $21.5 million guitar collection and donates proceeds to fight global warming

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Some of Daid Gilmour's guitars which were sold at auction recently, the proceeds going to fight ...

Best known as Pink Floyd’s guitar virtuoso, Dave Gilmour converted his guitar god cred into money last week, donating it to the greater good. Just as Eric Clapton had done before him, Gilmour auctioned his guitar collection and gave the proceeds to a cause. Gilmour’s immense contribution to combating climate change, resulted in numerous smashed auction records along the way.

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