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  • Vince Gill Tickets - These Days Are Just As Good As Before
    By: Brent Warnken | - As the decade comes to a close, names are being thrown left and right for best albums of the past 10 years. For country sets, one album couldn't be forgotten - These Days by Vince Gill. An epic release with four CDs in total that had him touring in support of the 2006 release for nearly three years, These Days was a Top Five Country Album that eventually went platinum.

    An entirely new sound from the Oklahoma native, its 43 new singles, most of which were penned or co-written by t ...

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  • Review Of The Line 6 Spider Three Amplifier "€" Perfect Beginner Amp!
    By: John Stevonson | - The Line 6 Spider three 15 guitar combo amplifier is a 15 watt solid state guitar amplifier with built-in amp and effects modeling. It's a good tiny amplifier for a beginning guitar player, and makes a great home practice amp for more experienced players.

    This is a solid state-modeling amp, four channels clean, crunch, metal and mad, all of which is programmable. Effects, chorus flange, phaser, tremolo, sweep echo, tape echo ( sweep and tape echo have tap delay time ) and reverb ...

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  • Learn To Play Guitar - Buying A Used Guitar
    By: Bobby Jones | - Learn to play guitar - How to buy a used guitar and not wind up with a lemon.

    Once you get fully into playing guitar you'll most likely want to buy more guitars. There are many different types and styles and they actually do have different features, they sound different and they even feel different to play.

    Buying used guitars can allow you to grow your collection faster for less money but you want to be careful not to buy lemons, or guitars that have too much wrong wi ...

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  • A Brief History Of Fender Guitars And Why Relics Are All The Rage
    By: Ray Subs | - The guitar instrument has been one of the most integral parts of music making in the last 100 years. When someone hears a rock song usually the image of a guitar will pass through their minds. It is an instrument with a great history and part of what helped it evolve was the introduction of the Fender company started by inventor Leo Fender. In the early fifties the Fender "Broadcaster" had its name changed to "Telecaster" because of its similarity with Gretsch's "BroadKaster." From then on the T ...
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  • Modern Day Treasure Hunters Are Coming To Troy, Al!
    By: Treasure Hunter | - What treasures are stashed around Troy? We are about to find out. The Treasure Hunters Roadshow is on an 18 month national treasure hunt and will be digging in town for five days. During this free event, the Treasure Hunters are expecting to see over 1,200 residence bringing in their rare and unusual collectibles! Locals will have a chance to talk to world renowned antique and collectible experts, and it's all free!

    Recent finds include a 1960's Vintage Guitar purchased for $100,000 ...

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  • New Labels And News At Moretvicar
    By: Tug Search | - Choose from over 500 different t-shirts from 50 top t-shirt labels including London's coolest urban labels. Jakes is the quintessential Soho label famous for the timeless Lucky 7 t-shirt and for counting David Beckham amongst its famous fans. Chunk is famous for retro t-shirts that play the nostalgia card brilliantly. Star Wars and Dangermouse have both been given the Chunk treatment and MoreTvicar.com has the very biggest collection of Chunk tees online. The A-Team tees and the VW Camper Van t- ...
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  • Zach Efron Is Zac Efron
    By: Richard Cunningham | - Zach Efron is not another actor who can drive us crazy with awesome dance moves. He is not another other teen heartthrob. He is Zac Efron, people who just heard Zacs name maybe thought his name is spelled with an H.

    No matter how you type or pronounce his name, the truth that Zac Efron is one of the hottest guys to appear in Hollywood cannot be changed. He may have that cool yet rebellious image but in reality he can just melt any girls heart as he pleases.

    Youve ...

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  • Buying Music Memorabilia A Few Useful Tips
    By: Peter Gitundu | - Music memorabilia is a great option to keep in touch with your favorite singers and their creations. No matter whether you are diehard fan of pop, opera or Jazz, there are ideal picks in music memorabilia for all genres of musical ears. These make excellent gifts or wonderful collectibles of your life time.

    The music memorabilia could include both contemporary and classical items and out of print records. Just visit any reputed online site to find LPs and guitar packs signed by art ...

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  • How To Get A Good Guitar Deal Online
    By: Paul GianPW | - The influx of online guitar stores has totally change the way one can purchase guitar online. This article reveals some of online websites in which you can do your guitar buying research before making a choice.

    The Guitar Base Mall lets individuals search for certain guitars and provides contact information for the person of store that is selling the instrument. On this site, there are many guitars being sold by singular owners so you may find more problems than if you purchase th ...

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  • What Makes A Vintage Gibson Guitar Vintage?
    By: Jo Meadows | - Vintage Gibson guitars are generally accepted as those from the 1920s through to the 70s. Unfortunately

    many people believe that the term vintage is anything over 30 years old. This is where canny dealers will

    catch them out, so beware. Whether it be an acoustic or vintage electric guitar there are certain models

    that are worth far more than others so it as well to do your homework before buying a Vintage Gibson.

    Alth ...

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  • The History Of The Bass Guitar And It's Impact On Music
    By: Jay Villaverde | - As far as instruments go, the bass guitar is one of the newest on the scene. It's a completely original component of today's bands and modern music and has not even been in existence for a century. Don't let the name "bass guitar" fool you either, the bass guitar is not actually derived from the guitar.

    While electric guitars were developed from acoustic guitars, bass guitars were developed from the double bass instrument. They were originally known (and are still sometimes called ...

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  • How The Electric Guitar Changed Music
    By: Jay Villaverde | - Everybody grows up dreaming about being a rock star, about being able to shred on an electric guitar and impress the masses. Even one of the most popular video games of today, Guitar Hero, is based around people's primal urge to play the guitar. The electric guitar has been the single most defining element of music for the 20th century and it's evolvement from the big band orchestra to the bands we know today.

    Who Invented the Electric Guitar?

    During the 1920's and ...

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  • A Guitar Players Guide To Buying Their Next Electric Guitar
    By: Jacob Smithsonn | - Live Rock concerts were all the rage in the 60's and they drove countless kids to buy their 1st guitars. In this day and age, video games like Guitar Hero World Tour are having a similar effect.

    The essence of rock music doesn't just lie with the words; it also lies with the electric guitar and the various sounds that it can produce. There are so many kids across the block who would give anything to play like Mark Knopfler, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page etc. These men are not just so ...

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  • The Rich History Of Acoustic Guitars
    By: Jay Villaverde | - Acoustic guitars are descendants of stringed instruments that were found in a variety of cultures thousands and thousands of years ago. As civilizations merged and the world became smaller, the guitar began taking on a unified shape and style. Since then, there has been a lineal evolution of several hundreds of years of instruments that can be directly compared to today's acoustic guitars.

    The Medieval Period

    During the Medieval Period of European history, there wer ...

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  • Classical Guitar Dealers Launch Revolutionary Website
    By: Vo Van An | - Classical guitar dealers launch revolutionary website

    Miles was keen to deliver the richest possible experience for anyone looking to purchase a classical guitar and after working closely with a local web design company, re launched the website. New classical guitar features include a gallery section that shows classical guitars being built that are available on the website. Other additions include a photo gallery popup allowing people to view the guitars in more detail and a mu ...

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  • The Evolution Of The Acoustic Guitar
    By: Jay Villaverde | - Acoustic guitars are descendants of stringed instruments that were found in a variety of cultures thousands and thousands of years ago. As civilizations merged and the world became smaller, the guitar began taking on a unified shape and style. Since then, there has been a lineal evolution of several hundreds of years of instruments that can be directly compared to today's acoustic guitars.

    The Medieval Period

    During the Medieval Period of European history, there wer ...

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  • Your Guide To Vintage Guitars
    By: Richard Saldana | - Music is the language of the soul, as the poet says.
    Listening to the strums of the strings of the guitar can relieve stress, soothes the mood and relaxes the mind and the body. With every pluck of its string speaks of emotions and the music it brought defines the meaning of the unspeakable.
    Guitars are musical instrument that have known to have a long life. Most guitarists have custom made guitars. The older it gets, the beautiful it sounds. Vintage guitars collectors, either ele ...

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  • Vintage Electric Guitar
    By: Evgenna Evgenna | - Negative Boy is what I am. Destroyed by fear and nerves within; internal battle until the end. The time Ive wasted is a sin. At last I think my time has come. To rid these demons, Im duty bound. Laugh it off, or stay and wallow: I think Ill live and fight the battle.

    But the songs appear to be the work of somebody outgoing, who is introspective enough to analyse any misgivings that may have occurred throughout his life. Be that as it may (psychoanaly ...

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  • 3 Tips Get More Out Of Music Lessons
    By: Brian Knapp | - Music is becoming an even bigger part of our everyday life and everyday culture, well, everyday. With games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, or popular electronic items like the iPod or the iPhone, this music is everywhere we go, and is everything that we do.

    Because of this newfound focus on music, more people are turning to learn a new instruments such as the guitar or the drums with varied success. You can see thousands if not millions of clips of people playing guitar on You ...

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  • Seven Common Misconceptions About Guitar Playing
    By: Matthew Kepnes | - Almost never do these musicians use digital effects to create their music.

    Third: You have to have a big amp to get a huge sound.
    NO!: Some of the most gigantic sounds that have been recorded have been done with smaller 10 -20 watt amps with the tube made very loud. Many infamous bands have stacks of amps on stage that are empty of speakers and a tiny amp tucked away behind the stack that is micd up into the PA system. Some guitarists are also using digital recreation ...

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  • Seven Widespread Fallacies About Guitars
    By: Matthew Kepnes | - Hardly do these guys use digital effects to create their sounds.

    Third: You have to have a big amp to get a big sound.
    Truth: Some of the most big sounds that have been recorded have been done with smaller 10 -20 watt amps with the tube jacked up loud. Many famous bands have many amps on stage that are empty of speakers and a tiny amp hidden behind the stack that is micd up into the PA system. Some musicians are also using digital recreations (POD, Digitech etc) of th ...

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  • The White Album Turns 40
    By: Marvin J Markus | - The Beatles had released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band & Magical Mystery Tour in 1967. Both had outlandish covers and a focus on psychedelic music. In 1968 The Beatles went the opposite direction with a plain white cover and a focus on variety in musical styles.

    While it's not as flawless as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Revolver (which I'd probably rank #2 and #3 among Beatles albums) I think it's incredible variety makes it the most interesting listen over the ...

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  • December Edition Of Vintage Guitar News And Views.
    By: Gregsguitars.net | - Keeping your guitars clean,yule be glad you did.

    For this months edition of Vintage guitar news and views we turn our attention to the maintenance and upkeep of our guitars ,both our playing guitars and our investments , which in my opinion they all are . Winter time is upon us ,dreary days and cloudy skies ,all but most of our outdoor jam sessions have ceased to exist, the perfect time for tuning up our guitars as well as general upkeep and cleaning, the following is standard but ...

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  • November Edition Of Vintage Guitar News And Views.
    By: Gregsguitars.net | - Giving thanks for groovy guitars


    This article explores Vintage Ibanez guitars,Well one in particular anyway and what she boasts as far as appointments and playability ,plus a little interesting vintage guitar history. Ibanez got her humble starts by a company going by the name of " Hoshino" ,in the early 40's producing a spanish styled acoustic guitar that was named Ibanez. By the 1970's Ibanez ( which Hoshino had purchased the rights to)was known (good or bad) as the l ...

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  • October Edition Of Vintage Guitar News And Views.
    By: Gregsguitars.net | - The October edition of Vintage Guitar News and Views.


    After settling on a budget, here are a few tricks to help you when treating yourself to your guitar. I really can not stress enough the importance of this first tip, play with your hands and ears, not your eyes. A pretty guitar that does not sound good or does not feel comfortable will not be played as much as a guitar that say may not look as great but has the tonal qualities and feel you really desire, so take the ti ...

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  • Martin Guitar - A Brief History
    By: Daniel Wright | - For well over a century and a half, The Martin Guitar Company has been continuously producing acoustic guitars that are acknowledged to be the finest for playing music in the world. The Company has, through the years, managed to survive with each succeeding generation from C. F. Martin, Sr.'s Stauffer influenced creations of the 1830s to recent developments introduced by C. F. Martin IV. Continuous operation under family management is a feat bordering on the remarkable, reflecting six generation ...
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  • 4 Steps To Choose A Great Electric Guitar
    By: Mike Veny | - 4 Steps To Choose A Great Electric Guitarby Mike Veny
    If you are concerned about buying an electric guitar, this article is for you. It's important to choose a reliable guitar, read reviews, compare prices, and try it risk free.
    1. Choose a Repeat Winner So let's begin with the most important point: Buy a popular guitar. Think about this: You don't want any surprises. That means avoiding rare electric guitars, vintage electric guitars or the newest models. Here's just a sampl ...

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  • 4 Steps To Choose A Great Acoustic Guitar
    By: Mike Veny | - 4 Steps To Choose A Great Acoustic Guitarby Mike Veny
    If you are concerned about buying an acoustic guitar, this article is for you. It's important to choose a reliable guitar, read reviews, compare prices, and try it risk free.
    1. Choose a Repeat Winner So let's begin with the most important point: Buy a popular guitar. Think about this: You don't want any surprises. That means avoiding rare acoustic guitars, vintage acoustic guitars or the newest models. Here's just a sampl ...

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  • 4 Necessary Steps You Should Take When Buying A Multitrack Recorder
    By: Mike Veny | - 4 Necessary Steps You Should Take When Buying a Multitrack Recorderby Mike Veny
    It's hard to find a good multitrack recorder that is in your budget. It's important to choose a reliable multitrack recorder, read reviews, compare prices, and try it risk free.
    1. Choose a Reliable Multitrack Recorder
    For starters, it's important to find a multitrack recorder that's a repeat winner. This way, there are no unexpected surprises. Avoid rare digital multitrack recorders, vinta ...

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  • 4 Necessary Steps You Should Take When Buying An Electric Guitar
    By: Mike Veny | - 4 Necessary Steps You Should Take When Buying an Electric Guitarby Mike Veny
    It's hard to find a good electricu guitar that is in your budget. It's important to choose a reliable guitar, read reviews, compare prices, and try it risk free.
    1. Choose a Reliable Electric Guitar
    For starters, it's important to find a guitar that's a repeat winner. This way, there are no unexpected surprises. Avoid rare electric guitars, vintage electric guitars or the newest models. Here's ...

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  • 4 Necessary Steps You Should Take When Buying An Acoustic Guitar
    By: Mike Veny | - 4 Necessary Steps You Should Take When Buying an Acoustic Guitarby Mike Veny
    It's hard to find a good acoustic guitar that is in your budget. It's important to choose a reliable guitar, read reviews, compare prices, and try it risk free.
    1. Choose a Reliable Acoustic Guitar
    For starters, it's important to find a guitar that's a repeat winner. This way, there are no unexpected surprises. Avoid rare acoustic guitars, vintage acoustic guitars or the newest models. Here's ...

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  • 4 Tips For Saving Money On An Electric Guitar
    By: Mike Veny | - 4 Tips For Saving Money on an Electric Guitarby Mike Veny
    If you are looking to buy an electric guitar, this could be the most eye-opening article you ever read. It's important to choose a reliable guitar, read reviews, compare prices, and try it risk free.
    1. Choose a Reliable Electric Guitar
    First off, it's important to find a guitar that's proven itself over time. This way, there are no surprises. Avoid rare electric guitars, vintage electric guitars or the newest m ...

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  • 4 Tips For Saving Money On An Acoustic Guitar
    By: Mike Veny | - 4 Tips For Saving Money on an Acoustic Guitarby Mike Veny
    If you are looking to buy an acoustic guitar, this could be the most eye-opening article you ever read. It's important to choose a reliable guitar, read reviews, compare prices, and try it risk free.
    1. Choose a Reliable Acoustic Guitar
    First off, it's important to find a guitar that's proven itself over time. This way, there are no surprises. Avoid rare acoustic guitars, vintage acoustic guitars or the newest m ...

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  • Rock Bands: What Are They?
    By: webnox | - A rock band is a group of musicians specializing in rock music. This music is a form of popular music with a major vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Some other types of rock music uses keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Rock music is characterized by having a strong back beat, which usually revolves around the guitar. The guitars used could be either solid electric, hollow electric, or acoustic. Usually a rock band is made up of a lead sing ...
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  • Blues - History And Development Drummers Guide Part One
    By: Eric Starr | - In 1903, W.C. Handy was waiting for a train in Mississippi and heard a Blues musician. He later called the style "the weirdest music I ever heard." Despite his first impression, Handy was inspired to compose his own Blues songs, most notably "Memphis Blues" and his immensely popular "St. Louis Blues." Blues' infectious spirit is exemplified through many songs and legendary stories. For instance, upon hearing "Good Night Irene," the governor of Louisiana was so moved that he granted the song writ ...
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  • Jammin With Jimmy And Jimmy
    By: lyndon ogden | - The crowd (my mum and sister) goes wild as I effortlessly switch from one vintage Gibson Guitar solo to another. Who knows when \'Purple Haze\' stops and \'Whole Lotta Love\' starts when faced with such virtuosity. Just when it seems it can\'t get any better I give them the full force of my vocal chords

    \"You need coolin, baby, Im not foolin,
    Im gonna send you back to schoolin,
    Way down inside honey, you need it,
    Im gonna give you my love,
    Im gonna give ...

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  • Joe Nichols Revelation Country Music Cd Review
    By: Clyde Lee Dennis | - Revelation is the latest Country CD put out by the very talented Joe Nichols who once again has delivered a brilliant collection of tracks. Im confident Joe Nichols fans, and Country fans alike will be pleased with this one.

    Unfortunately, its not everyday that I get a CD from an artist that I can just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. There is usually a song or two that I just cant force myself to get through. Not at all the case with Revelation. Ev ...

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  • Guitars Shopping For Guitar Parts
    By: Jim Brown | - Just as every musician has their own style of music, that reflects their background, heritage, rhythms and customized style in composing their music for others to enjoy, the musical instrument that they play their musical sounds from must be just as personal, and creative as the person that composed the music. When guitars shopping for guitar parts, musicians can buy bits and pieces of a guitar to create a genuine replica of what they feel in their soul.

    These musicians start thei ...

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  • History Of The Acoustic Guitar
    By: Samantha Clark | - Acoustic Guitar

    Acoustic guitar usually involve the following musical instruments:

    Nylon and gut stringed guitars:
    Renaissance guitar
    Romantic guitar
    Classical guitar

    Steel stringed guitars:
    Twelve string guitar
    Steel-string acoustic guitar
    Archtop guitar
    Battente guitar

    Acoustic bass guitar
    Russian guitar

    Other instruments:
    Harp guitar ...

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  • The Evolution Of Brass
    By: Taisha Grant | - Brass instruments are popular specifically in jazz and marching bands work because of the vibration of air against the inside of a brass tube. Another term for brass instruments is labrosones which means lip vibrating instruments. One of the most popular of the brass instruments is the trumpet. Trumpets, though now crafted out of metal, were originally made out of shell. They were not constructed in that medium, but rather whole shells were utilized (conch shells in particular) to create a horn ...
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  • The Best Gifts For Guitarists In 2006 Guitar Effects
    By: William McRea | - Are you looking for a great gift for the guitarist in your life? They already have a guitar and amplifier so getting them another is out of the question. And most guitarists seem to buy the accessories that they need as they go along. Have you considered purchasing guitar effects in the form of pedals or effects units?

    With the guitar, the sound is generated using electrical signals. When you take the signal and process it in certain ways, this changes the sound. When you use a sp ...

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  • Buying A Guitar Package For The New Guitarist For Christmas In 2006
    By: William McRea | - You know you want to get your child a guitar for Christmas. It will help them build confidence and creativity and give them an understanding of music. But with all the choices out there, have you given it any thought which brand you would choose? Not only that, but there are also accessories that you need to buy that go with the guitar.

    No matter if you would like to get them an acoustic or electric guitar. There are guitar packs out there for both instruments. Electric guitar pac ...

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  • A Brief History Of Ovation Acoustic Guitars
    By: William McRea | - The history of Ovation Guitars is unique because its founder, Charles Kaman, was actually an aeronautical engineer designing rotor blades for helicopters. It was this experience that caused him to contemplate standard guitar structure and eventually lead to the development of the round-backed composite body. Traditional guitars have wooden backs and sides, so this feature differentiates Ovation Guitars from the competition. This revolutionary move came about in the 1960s.

    Kaman wa ...

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  • A Brief History Of Martin Acoustic Guitars
    By: William McRea | - C.F. Martin & Company is one of the oldest, if not the oldest guitar company in the United States. Christian Frederick Martin founded the company in 1833. After years of developing their guitars and setting a standard for excellence, it is easy to say that Martin is one of the most popular acoustic guitar companies in the world.

    Despite the fact that the company was founded around 175 years ago, it still remains a family operation. The current company chairman and CEO is CF Chris ...

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  • Tips For Recording Music With Your Electric Piano
    By: Gabriel Adams | - Electric pianos, also called digital pianos are become increasing popular, due to their many benefits. Quality digital pianos now how a sound and feel very close to an acoustic piano. In fact, some digital pianos can rival the best grand pianos in sound quality.

    One of the best benefits of digital pianos is their digital output of sound, so it's very easy to record music using just your digital piano and your computer.

    Most keyboards and electric pianos have a one q ...

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  • Gibson Humbucker Guitar Strings
    By: Michael Tafoya | - This is a new line of electric guitar string from the Gibson Guitar co. called Gibson Gear, Elgin, Illinois U.S.A. Its new to me

    Ive written articles calling the Gibson electric guitar string the best actually; theyre my favorite electric guitar strings. Like Ive said before, Ive used most of the major string brands and I play all the time. Also, I know its been said time and again that guitar strings have so much in common that theres no discer ...

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  • I Use Gibson Pick-ups, Why?
    By: Michael Tafoya | - For years or decades Ive played electric guitar in bands at bars, schools, concerts and recording sessions yet I couldnt tell you what pick-ups (p/us) were about. I mean, I didnt have a clue as to what a pick-up did what to my sound. I grew up in a Gibson family. I mean that my relatives, when they didnt ridicule me for my participation as a rock and roll guitar player, said if I played a guitar, it had to be a Gibson. So, I only had a clue about humbucker type pick-ups Gibson ...
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  • How To Connect A Guitar To A Computer
    By: Brad Finley | - So many players want to record guitar playing on their computer. Digital recording is more popular than ever for pros and amateurs alike. But there are some things to be considered when you connect a guitar to a computer; mostly how you want to connect the instrument, and the quality of the recording you hope to capture. The type of guitar computer interface you choose will greatly affect the sound of the electric guitar through the computer and the overall recording you can expect.

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