Guitar innovation was going on throughout Europe and America at the same time that Torres was experimenting on the design of the classical guitar. The… Read More »Modern Guitar Innovations – 1850 – X-Bracing
Recently while reading an online guitar magazine, I saw an ad for a guitar which claimed it was the result of an amazing innovative design.… Read More »Modern Guitar Innovations – 1850 – Torres
Small Jazz Guitars My brother, a guitarist, recently commented on a picture of me playing a Stratocaster that was on Facebook. He said he always… Read More »Smaller than an ES-175
My daughter told me a horror story while we were on vacation this summer. No, it wasn’t about creepy zombies told around the campfire while… Read More »How to Travel with a Guitar.
The following table is extracted from the post, “My First Dream Guitar“. I’m reproducing it here in the Factoids category for easy reference.
If you missed “My First Dream Guitar“, the significance of these three guitars are:Read More »Comparison of Specs – 1st Dream Guitar
Summertime Blues
Summertime is vacation time and vacation time is when I have to figure out which instruments I’ll bring with me on this year’s vacation. I get the summertime blues when I can’t bring a guitar with me on vacation.
If you’re considering your vacation or travel guitar options here’s some things to consider:Read More »Vacation Guitars
Does the Ami parlor guitar have an unusually narrow neck?
It had always seemed as if my Arts & Lutherie Ami guitar had a narrower neck than the other guitars I was used to playing. I was going to include this observation in the post Vacation Guitars but decided I should see if that was really true.
The Ami neck width is not significantly different than my Fender Stratocaster or my Epiphone Casino. It is narrower than my primary acoustic guitar, the Martin OM28.
Here are the measurements I made: Read More »Some Neck Widths
I was reading up on classical guitars recently. I’ve never owned a classical guitar. However, we had dinner at a friend’s house a few weeks… Read More »Scale Lengths
