Gifts of Christmases Past: Real-life Suggestions This time of year I often plan to blog about gift ideas you can give the musician in your… Read More »Gifts of Christmases Past: Real-life Gift Suggestions
Last year I reviewed old and new chromatic tuners I owned. Among the new tuners I reviewed were Planet Waves NS Mini Headstock Tuner and the… Read More »Review of New D’Addario NS Micro Tuner
I love flatwound strings on electric guitars, particularly hollow body jazz guitars. I’ve currently got flat wound strings on three of my guitars, one of… Read More »Flat Wound Guitar Strings
So many string choices for your electric guitar. As for acoustic guitars, there are differences based on composition, wrap style and treatments. But many of… Read More »Electric Guitar Strings
Most of us have probably heard that guitars once were strung with catgut strings but unless you are into early music, you probably don’t have… Read More »Guitar Strings – History, Technology
Almost all experts (including luthiers, music educators, guitarists, music store staff, etc.) recommend that you keep your guitar in its case when you’re not playing… Read More »How to build an Inexpensive Humidified Guitar Cabinet
When I was a kid my local music store stocked one brand of guitar string, Black Diamond. I had two choices for string gauge. Although… Read More »Acoustic Guitar Strings
The humidity and temperature are both high in the Boston area as I write this blog. It’s mid September and we’re having a summer refresher… Read More »Guitar Case Humidifier Systems
I started a series on guitar picks more than a year ago. I always intended to complete the series with a post about thumb picks.… Read More »Picky – The Thumb
I was fascinated to discover ukulele strings composed of two stainless steel flatwound strings for the 4th and 3rd strings. These were combined with two… Read More »Baritone Ukulele Strings with Mixture of Stainless Flatwound and Plain Nylon
