He was interviewed in Bath by Total Guitar Editor Stephen Lawson. He got the job. We could finish this story here, with a ...

To his surprise, he found all the parts he needed for just $136, a fraction of what custom instruments typically cost.

Steel guitar has 10 strings on it, and it’s got four floor pedals and five knee levers. You’ve got a volume control, so you’re working both feet, both knees and both hands, all at the same time.

He picks up Eddie Van Halen’s guitar and he tries to play it and it sounds like crap, but when Eddie plays it, it’s this magical thing. It sounds like Eddie. That’s the same thing with Peter. His bass ...

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With the help of his son James, who lives in Hope, B.C., Collie is hoping to sell some of his collection. The electric bass guitar is on sale for $8,000, and the cello for $6,500.

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Rick Vantour holds the bass guitar that was stolen from his School of Rock in Orléans in 2021. It's been returned to him after a fellow musician found it lying on someone's lawn in Westboro this ...

But while the steel guitar can still be found in country and other types of music, the Hawaiian steel guitar garners little recognition today, even on the island of Oahu, its birthplace.

In the 1970s, the Hawaiian steel guitar was so popular in the U.S. that attendees of an annual festival in Indiana would fly in from as far as England and China and camp outside a motel when it ...

Some steel-string players prefer mahogany for its mid-range punch and crystal highs, while jumbos are traditionally built with maple, a bright-sounding tonewood that tempers their naturally bass-heavy ...

Paul McCartney was reunited with his 1961 electric Höfner bass guitar -- which he played with The Beatles -- more than 50 years after it was stolen.