The joke in This Is Spinal Tap about an amp that “goes to 11” has particular resonance for anybody who’s ever picked up a solid-body electric guitar. The history of rock music is a ...

Gibson calls its replica the Eric Clapton 1958 Les Paul Custom, but Clapton is only one of the stars to have owned and played this storied guitar ...

The term wouldn’t be popularized until the 1980s, but there, in front of hundreds of thousands of people, Joe Cocker was playing air guitar. You could start the history of the invisible ...

The electric guitar is one of the iconic objects of the 20th century. It made, and still makes, sounds which have the power to fix our personal and collective memories in a specific time and place ...

I should be able to play higher.' "And that was really the defining kind of root of why I invented a new kind of guitar," he added. "I just wanted to have more range in the top register--and ...

This guitar was made in Japan by by the Kiso Suzuki Violin Company company. It is a copy of a guitar by the USA guitar makers Martin & Co. In the 1970's several Japanese instrument makers decided ...

PITTSBURGH, March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better way to protect my fingertips while playing the guitar or banjo," said an inventor, from Kingston, Tenn., " ...