It has been almost 100 years since the resonator guitar was born of necessity. In the days before amplification, musicians needed a way to make their acoustic guitars louder, and the striking ...

LOS ANGELES, June 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acclaimed Brazilian guitarist João Gaspar has embarked on an exhilarating musical journey with the release of singles from his album "Acoustic Landscapes ...

A strange old instrument that was thought to be extinct has made a stunning comeback, with even Harry Styles jumping in on the action. In the days before amplification, musicians needed a way to make ...

So what do you do if your solo performance set list includes compositions featuring parts for electric guitar, banjo and Dobro? You can either try to simplify the arrangement or attempt some ...

Tim Scheerhorn, the genius behind the coveted Scheerhorn Resonator Guitar and recent inductee into the Michigan Country Music Hall of Fame, led me into his ascetic, sub level workshop and offered me a ...

The early years of bluegrass music can be traced back to the 1940s in Appalachia. With roots in music styles like English folk and Appalachian music, the genre served as the inspiration and basis for ...

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First designed by John Dopyera and George Beauchamp in the late 1920s, National resonator guitars were a solution to two problems plaguing guitarists. First, volume: prior to the invention of electric ...