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The antennae of many guitar collectors/enthusiasts pop up when they encounter a Gibson-made instrument bearing a six-digit serial number with "Made In The USA"...

The acoustic Hawaiian guitar of Hermann Weissenborn is one of the most specialized instrument designs of the 20th century. Weissenborns were made for guitarists...

Carl Verheyen says it all came to him when he heard the Eagles' album called The Long Run. At that point, he was heavily into...

Guild didn’t intro-duce a true solidbody electric guitar until 1963, but the Aristocrat of 1954 gave the appearance that Guild was competing head-to-head with...

As amp builders go, Dario G. Gomez is about as fresh as they come. Though he has been repairing tube amps for many years,...

Put your gut money on a dark horse every so often, and you might find the rest of the regurgitating bandwagon world awash in...

Almost any guitar can be viewed in terms of a confluence of influences that produced it, from the company history to the history of...

For a guy born in New Zealand and reared in Australia, Keith Urban certainly knows how to grab the attention of Yankee music fans. The...

Former Gibson president Ted McCarty (1909-2001) is credited for his leadership of the company when it peaked in terms of innovation, design, and execution....