What is the connection between playing a musical instrument and being a good figure skater? We asked some musically-gifted ...

Oasis have teamed up with The Guitarwrist to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust with a range of guitar string bracelets, earrings and rings for sale – check them out here. The band, who reunited ...

Ernie Ball and D'Addario strings are two American companies that have dominated the acoustic string market for decades. They both make exceptional products, but with distinct tones that serve ...

It is popular in economics to employ metaphors in order to provide support to a particular idea. For example, concepts like “priming the pump” through expansionary monetary policy. In another case, ...

A legendary guitar personally customized and once wielded by arena-rock icon Eddie Van Halen is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s in October. Its estimate? A whopping $2 million–$3 million. And ...

Time to put your soldering iron down and consider a few often overlooked facts and figures about the guitars we play. Dave Burrluck answers some questions, the first addressing one of the most ...

Once a week, executives of D’Addario & Company, a maker of strings and drumsticks for the world's top musicians, gather at the company’s headquarters about 64 kilometers east of New York to strategize ...

FARMINGDALE, NY (Reuters) -Once a week, executives of D’Addario & Company, a maker of strings and drumsticks for the world's top musicians, gather at the company’s headquarters about 40 miles east of ...

At UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, PhD student Joseph Doh Wook Kim plays a flawless riff on an electric guitar made with plantation-grown Fijian mahogany. The sound is deep, warm and ...

The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments, carefully stored in a climate-controlled room. By Zoë Lescaze In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most ...

If you're just starting out on guitar, or perhaps you've just taken your very first guitar out of its box and you're raring to get playing, this is the place to start. Here in the first of a series of ...