University of Texas Permian Basin music education student Mariah Gomez is building her very own classical guitar. She began the process in May and is eager to complete it by early November. “I tend to ...

PHOTOS () —By Edward OrtizMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Classical guitar builder Waylin Carpenter gets a telltale glint in his eye when he talks about guitars. The instrument looms ...

Is the tone really in the wood, and do old guitars really sound better because the wood has dried out? The answers are yes and no. Contrary to popular belief, the seasoned wood used for guitar ...

Long before rock, country or blues shaped American music, one Pennsylvania company was already building its foundation.

In the eighth grade, Jeffrey Boerner made his first guitar out of construction lumber he scrounged from a nearby housing development in Chicago. At age 59, he now oversees a substantially more ...

A stone’s throw from the Borough Hall subway stop in Brooklyn is a nondescript storefront whose only identifying features are a patent -application taped to the front window and a gleaming array of ...

Watch my attempt at building an acoustic baritone guitar—and the mistakes I made along the way! Learn from my DIY mishaps and ...

Follow the first steps in crafting a hybrid acoustic guitar by building the molds. #GuitarBuilding #HybridAcoustic ...

Lowden Guitars has unveiled the limited-edition 45th anniversary O-25, a classically appointed, high-end acoustic guitar with a design referencing the guitar that helped make the Lowden name, the L-25 ...

EL CAJON, Calif. — For almost 40 years, Bob Taylor's dream of making easier-to-play great-sounding guitars has paid off. His Taylor Guitars is now the No. 1 manufacturer of acoustic guitars in the ...

Every guitarist, even the die-hard shredders among us, should own at least one acoustic guitar. With classical roots, it is known for its portability and versatility, as well as its mellow overtones ...