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From baseball bat air-guitar solos to national competitions, Alex Lee Warner is proof that passion and perseverance can strike all the right chords.
UK government support for the Scunthorpe steel works cannot be at the expense of Welsh steel communities, Eluned Morgan has said. The Labour first minister said she "understood" why Welsh ...
The fret board (the neck against which the strings are strung), of the classical guitar is significantly wider than that of the acoustic guitar. Because of the different strings of the classical ...
Rieck’s ultimate goal is to use technology to streamline a labor-intensive process and make building custom guitars more affordable. Something that would no doubt strike a chord with customers ...
In 1948, the company introduced a “beginner” set that paired a Hawaiian lap-steel guitar with an amp designed to sit a rung lower than that initial trio. It was dubbed the Champion 800 ...
The First Minister of Wales has pleaded for Tata Steel to wait for a Labour government before shutting off its blast furnaces and making thousands of job cuts. Following seven months of discussions ...
But while the lap steel guitar can still be found in country and other types of music, the Hawaiian steel guitar garners little recognition today, even on the island of Oahu, its birthplace.
The government’s aim for a fiscal deficit of 5.1% of GDP in 2024-25 is around 70 basis points lower than the updated estimate for the current year. This puts the goal to reach the 4.5% mark by ...
Gibson was the first company to use the “bar pickup” in 1935, which utilised one of the first single coil pickups to amplify a guitar. They used it in their new Hawaiian lap steel guitars in ...
WHO: Pedal steel guitar player Noah Faulkner. WHAT: This teenager inserts a country twang into eighties (and beyond) covers for his dog, Kara, and nearly 40,000 Instagram followers. WHY IT’S SO ...