In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare won the Florida lottery and took home a $17 million lump sum. His friends and family remembered ...

Chinese imports make up 43 percent of the instruments imported into the U.S., leading insiders to fear a music recession ...

Acoustic guitars aren’t very metal. That is, until you hear the intro of Metallica’s Fade to Black, or till Black Sabbath’s Planet Caravan sparks a compulsion to turn the overdrive down and jam the ...

Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.

And if you wanted to play louder… Then you just hit it harder. And with no amp or additional faff required, acoustic guitars were, and always will be, the perfect gateway for new music makers looking ...

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