Ford has fond memories of touring and recording with the “wonderful” Mitchell, who has a producer knows exactly how she wants a guitar to sound – and how to get the tone ...
For more than four decades, Willie Nelson's faithful guitar tuner, "Tunin' Tom" Hawkins, was as much a part of the legend behind Trigger as the guitar itself. Hawkins wasn't just a technician; he was ...
What if the strings of a guitar could float, untethered, held in place by nothing but invisible magnetic forces? It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Mattias Krantz outlines how he turned ...
I tried to play a 12-string guitar, and it was a completely different experience than I expected. From the thicker neck and higher string tension to the massive, shimmering sound, this video explores ...
The magic of 12-string guitars in corrido music lies in their string arrangement. With pairs of strings tuned in octaves (except for the two highest pairs, which are tuned in unison), these ...
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The not-so-humble 12-string guitar. Like its six-string brother but beefed up on steroids, its impact on a song is unmistakable. While it packs double the ergonomic punch, the result isn’t necessarily ...
Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...