Every acoustic aficionado needs a 12-string. There’s a magic in coursed string pairs and a distinctive power that Pete Seeger described as “the clanging of the bells.” But it's important to know what ...

As a guitar tech, I see an awful lot of setup jobs that come in with tuning stability complaints, only to find the strings have been wound on badly or just plain wrong. In actual fact, it is easy to ...

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Guild’s I Series guitars are an avowed classic. Guild I-12 electric Starfire model, as Paul Riario demonstrates here, “maintains classic Guild tone and response without sacrificing playability,” all ...