Archive for December, 2021


How a Skilled Touchup Artist Can Make Your Guitar’s Dings and Scratches Disappear

scratched guitar top

Touchup is one of the real dark arts of instrument repair, and one that exists in an almost entirely different universe from structural and functional repairs.

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Introducing the all-new Acoustasonic Player Telecaster

Introducing the all-new Acoustasonic Player Telecaster

Sponsored by Fender: Streamlined and stage-ready with a simplified 3-Way Switch and powerful Blend Knob, this shape-shifting hybrid goes from acoustic to electric with something new at every turn. Watch Nicholas Veinoglou explore this model’s exciting features and learn more here: http://fender.com/APT

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How Megan and Rebecca Lovell of Larkin Poe Traveled from Bluegrass to Blues Rock and Beyond

Larkin Poe standing in empty room with guitars

To learn more about Larkin Poe’s journey from acoustic roots music to amped-up rock, we caught up with the sisters by phone from their home bases in Nashville.

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Video Lesson: Discover the Secrets Behind Bob Dylan’s Inventive Acoustic Guitar Work

bob dylan seated in front of a microphone playing harmonica and acoustic guitar

Bob Dylan’s great acoustic guitar playing is often overlooked. Here we showcase his deceptive chord moves, his fluency with standard and non-standard tunings, and his knack for constant reinvention.

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Review: Taylor’s GTe Urban Ash Is a Little Guitar that Packs a Punch

Taylor GTe Urban Ash

The smaller Taylor GTe doesn’t feel like a travel guitar and plays and sounds like a front-line instrument; the TaylorSense App helps you maintain it.

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Learn Bryan Sutton’s Take on the Holiday Classic “The Little Drummer Boy”

Learn Bryan Sutton’s Take on the Holiday Classic “The Little Drummer Boy”

Cross-picking through a seasonal favorite in the guitar-friendly key of C major.

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Tips for Tackling the Flatpicking Bluegrass of Doc Watson and Clarence White on “Footprints in the Snow”

Doc Watson in 1994 playing his guitar and singing into a mic at a concert

From the January/February 2022 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Alan Barnosky The 1964 performance by Doc Watson and Clarence White together at the Newport Folk Festival is a stellar demonstration of flatpicking. As heard on a series of duets on the album Treasures Untold, the recording captures both players early in their careers. Watson emerged on the scene beginning […]

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Guitar Talk: Hear Adam Miller Play and Discuss a Fan-Fretted Traugott 00 and Ken Parker Archtop

guitar talk with Adam Miller

Adam Miller, a guitarist and composer from Australia, stopped by Acoustic Guitar’s San Francisco Bay Area office with some choice Traugott and Ken Parker guitars.

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Joni Mitchell

The melodies and harmonies of Joni Mitchell’s music rarely unfold in ways that our ears have come to expect. Here’s a look at her guitar tuning Odyssey.

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Great Acoustics: Buck Curran’s Long Lost 2009 Sobell Model 1

Buck Curran and his 2009 Sobell acoustic guitar

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Buck Curran’s tale about his 2009 Stefan Sobell Model 1 is more uplifting than some other tales of “the one that got away.”

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