Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need ...

Forget amp sims, the pedal stalwarts’ latest V-Guitar tech has the potential to model just about any stringed instrument using your guitar ...

Using 3D animation, Greg explains how the sound a string makes is amplified by an instrument like the violin. Fran shows us how it is easy to make a guitar out of an old cardboard box and some ...

models the slight dissipation in energy as the wave makes a round trip through the string.

The 12-String sound is somehow both unique and familiar. Able to produce a lusher, thicker tone than a traditional 6 string, 12-string acoustic guitars were once regarded as novelty instruments, but ...

It is still a guitar in the sense that it has a body, strings, and pickups to sense the strings vibrations and pass them to an amplifier. The left hand, which traditionally would shorten the ...