a new charity initiative to provide underserved youth with guitars and music lessons. Some 600 teenagers aged 13 to 19 will benefit from the initiative, which opens for applications in July.

I stood there as enchanted as a child, smiling at the music box in front of me. It was one of those globes you shake, but it didn’t t have the traditional white “snow.” Sparkling “jewels” would shoot ...

Ever since Lester William Polsfuss (better known as Les Paul) put the finishing touches on the first Gibson, the guitar has been more than a mere musical instrument — it’s also been a way to ...

However, Doktor said cigar box guitars existed long before major guitar manufacturers — even before rock ‘n’ roll itself. In fact, the cigar box guitar’s role in shaping early blues music ...