by TheFlyFifer on May 20, 2010
What’s the weirdest thing about the guitar? It’s not the shape (though there are some weird ones around) and it’s not the sound, though maybe an instrument that doesn’t make any audible sound (for example an electric guitar) is pretty peculiar. No, the weirdest thing about the guitar is that, if you think of all [...]
by TheFlyFifer on March 17, 2010
Guitars have in one form or another been around for thousands of years. There are paintings in Egyptian tombs showing instruments which are similar. For all those thousands of years, instrument making has been a specialised art, and the best instrument makers were students of music themselves.
In the twentieth century all that changed. A new [...]