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With its wooden hoop covered by animal skin, its fretless neck and gut strings, the minstrel banjo has a mellow, intimate sound, more like a lute or an Arabic oud than the bright, steel-stringed ...

Bentonia blues is known for its fingerpicking style and a minor-key tuning that Henry Stuckey said he picked up from Caribbean guitarists ... The sound of steel guitar strings is replaced with ...

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Gibson has partnered with Sir Brian May to release the Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic guitar. The iconic global instrument brand has teamed up with the legendary Queen guitarist to create the ...

Willie nailed the vocals on his verse. He invited Strings, an absolute savant on guitar, to pick for a little bit on Trigger. They then retired to a poker game, during which Billy promptly lost ...

In the right hands, the acoustic guitar becomes a world of sound that transgresses the limitations of the instrument and the role as mere accompaniment. Genres become blurred and suddenly the strings ...

“What he showed me was, you might not be a guitar god, but you could make a living.” The irony is that Billy Strings — in terms of the reverence he’s earned from a large and growing audien ...

Finished in Aged Caribbean Mist with ... is cribbed from the original guitar. Said neck is topped with a slab rosewood fingerboard with a 9.5” radius, seating 22 medium jumbo frets. As for hardware, ...

Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings – wearable guitar picks – adorning his right thumb, index and middle finger. His left hand hovers over the strings along the neck ...

Head and Munky weren't playing in a band together yet, but Head influenced Munky to start playing the electric guitar. Munky picked up the seven string first, and then Head started playing them after.