Guitars are already pretty portable instruments. But those long necks can suffer more than a ding on long journeys, so various travel guitar designs have emerged. The latest is a premium design from Ciari Guitars that features a fold-over neck and hides a novel locking mechanism inside the body.
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Modular systems let guitarists switch components in and out as they please, but most are still made using wood. Luthier Boaz Elkayam has opted to make his modular guitar in plastic for durability, and it can be set up in 50 different ways.
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Many of Prince's choice guitars perfectly reflected his flamboyant stage presence, but arguably his most famous is the curvy Cloud Guitar. And now you can play one of your very own courtesy of Schecter and the official Prince store.
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Best known as Pink Floyd's guitar virtuoso, Dave Gilmour auctioned his guitar collection and gave the proceeds to a good cause. Gilmour's immense contribution to combating climate change, resulted in numerous smashed auction records along the way.
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The neck on many guitars today is made up of some wood topped by some more wood that has strips of metal inserted along it. The Subfretboard takes a different approach, laying a long metal plate on top of the neck, which has frets standing to attention along it that are filled in with blocks of wood
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In January, 2019, Line 6 released a useful update to its excellent Relay G10 wireless system for electric pickers, where the receiver housing was reworked to fit on a pedalboard. Now Roland's Boss brand has followed suit with the WL-60 Wireless System.
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Back in the late 1950s, music gear maker Valco added a new guitar to its Supro line called the Triple Tone. It was only sold for a year or so, making originals very hard to come by. But Supro has now relaunched this eye-catching tone-meister in the shape of the 2019 Tri Tone.
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The mid-1980s was a particularly successful time for guitarist George Thorogood – from his chilling Bad to the Bone to his captivating performance at Live Aid. The guitar he played throughout his career has now inspired a limited edition Epiphone dubbed White Fang.
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Ernie Ball's Music Man guitar-making arm has launched a new Artist Series StingRay in collaboration with Dustin Kensrue from American alt-rockers Thrice. Among the signature tweaks is the ability to run the pickups to separate outputs.
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The gig bag of many guitarists will likely hold a good deal more than the guitar itself. Spare strings, a tuner, and possibly a capo – used to change the pitch of strings without having to retune. But what if you only want to capo certain strings? That's precisely what the Gillis Capo Guitar offers.
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