There’s been lots of interesting developments in electric pickups in the last 5-10 years. Many have tried to improve on tone, frequency response and noise. Zexcoil pickups have some …
Do We Hear With Our Eyes and Wallet?
It’s been recently shown that with properly executed, double-blind testing, world-class violinists cannot tell the difference between the best, modern violin instruments and Stradivari and Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ instruments. I …
Traugott Hunter Model
Jeff Traugott is world famous for his traditional acoustic guitars. The waiting list can stretch many years for his models (current base price is $26,500). He also makes a …
2016 Ottawa Guitar Show
The annual Ottawa Guitar Show has been announced for 2016. It’s being held at the same place as last year, The Glebe Community Centre, on June 26, 2016 from 10a-5p …
Sauvage One Piece Master
Sauvage guitars is clearly aimed at the super high-end luxury guitar market. At this price level, it is entering some uncharted territory for modern guitar markets. Their main model “One Piece Master” …
Cycfi Pickups
The Cycfi XR modern pickups use traditional techniques to pickup the vibrating string, but utilize a low impedance structure to create a full frequency response pickup with impedance matching output …
2016 Holy Grail Guitar Show
The 2016 Holy Grail Guitar Show has just been announced for this year, to be held October 8,9 in Berlin at the Estrel Berlin. This show is the premier show …
PRS Guitars Private Stock: Is it really modern?
PRS Guitars are some of the most lovely guitars made today. But do they really qualify as modern guitars? Well, the first thing you notice about them is the heavily …
Lace Alumitone Pickups
Conventional magnetic pickups have been constructed based on principles known for centuries and the fundamental design has not changed since perhaps the 1930s. There are magnetic pole pieces or bars …
The “Tao Guitar”
Tao Guitars make some really interesting instruments. You can see the industrial and visual design influence in these guitars, especially the “Tao Guitar.” Every piece has been designed with a …
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