Brothers [Armand] and [Victor] took their acoustic guitar to the next level, making their own pickups to turn it into an electric guitar. The result is that awesome electric guitar sound. The pickups ...

Is the tone really in the wood, and do old guitars really sound better because the wood has dried out? The answers are yes and no. Contrary to popular belief, the seasoned wood used for guitar ...

Musicians are always singing about social change. Now their guitars are getting into the act. Martin Guitar Co. has just unveiled one of the greenest guitars to date: the D Mahogany 09, an acoustic ...

PHOTOS () —By Edward OrtizMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Classical guitar builder Waylin Carpenter gets a telltale glint in his eye when he talks about guitars. The instrument looms ...

Some musicians spend years trying to find a reliable guitar best suited for their needs, playing style and personal tastes. There's a myriad of factors to consider: intonation, body shape, neck size, ...

In the eighth grade, Jeffrey Boerner made his first guitar out of construction lumber he scrounged from a nearby housing development in Chicago. At age 59, he now oversees a substantially more ...

University of Texas Permian Basin music education student Mariah Gomez is building her very own classical guitar. She began the process in May and is eager to complete it by early November. “I tend to ...

ACOUSTIC WEEK: "I'm not like other guitar players," Jose Feliciano says, stating the kind of truism that is likely to elicit a "no kidding" response from even the most casual music fan. But it's one ...

The electro-acoustic market market has always faced a challenge; how to make acoustic guitars and pickups that can sound like a guitar unplugged when they're amplified and can hold their own in a mix ...