Guitar lessons: Whether you’re a glass-half-full or half-empty kind of person, exploring the world of open tunings on acoustic guitar can either be a goldmine of inspiration or a minefield of ...

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A versatile guitarist can turn his or her hand to accompanying in a variety of styles, so here we'll look at walking basslines - a method of providing jazz-style accompaniment (or 'comping', to use ...

At last year’s NAMM show, Taylor announced its Grand Pacific round-shoulder dreadnought developed by master guitar designer Andy Powers. Company experts announced that the new body shape and other ...

I really love acoustic guitars, and I have a few of them. If you are like me, maybe you do, too. One of the features I find most interesting about acoustic instruments is how much variation there can ...

For more than 100 years, most of the soundboards of acoustic guitars have used X-shaped bracing to not only reinforce the top but also to help give the instruments their voice. Now Taylor Guitars has ...

The founders of Taylor Guitars have a reputation for playing a different tune. It’s been that way since Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug borrowed $10,000 from family in 1974 to fund the upstart start-up, ...