Cort and Yamaha are two brands you will see in guitar shops all the time, and both have a good reputation for making good quality instruments. They both produce acoustic and electric guitars at various levels, and you may be on the fence when it comes to choosing the guitar with the best quality and…
Ovation guitars have had a long and interesting history. Based out of New Hartford, Connecticut their guitars were first designed by aerospace scientists. For decades they were the unchallenged kings of the acoustic electric guitar. Now their place in the guitar hierarchy is questionable. Ovation guitars were once played by everyone from those on the…
John Suhr went from fixing guitars in the boiler room of Rudy’s Music Shop in New York to being hired as the master builder for Fenders Custom Shop in Los Angeles before he started his own company. He aimed to improve upon the designs of Fender and fix the problems found after years of working…
Breedlove guitars have become known for their rich-sounding guitars, and over the past few decades have become sought-after instruments for true musicians. They build finely crafted guitars with a bold body design, featuring a soft cutaway that gives Breedlove guitars a unique appearance. Breedlove was started by two experienced luthiers who had innovative quality design…
For a long time, guitar lovers have argued which guitars are better than others, depending on their country of origin. The comparison between Chinese and Indonesian-made guitars has always received plenty of attention in this debate. Does it matter if a guitar was made in China or Indonesia? China potentially has more advanced guitar production…
A rather modern development in the world of guitars is the popularity of staggered tuners that claim to do away with the need for string trees. Whether you’re trying to get rid of the buzz commonly associated with string trees or trying to work out what type of tuners will keep your guitar in tune…
If you want to know where various brands and models of guitar are made, then you can easily spend hours searching the web to find answers. Knowing how time-consuming it can be to find a seemingly simple answer, I decided to put together a comprehensive list of guitar brands and where they are made all…
A topic of hot debate is the G&L vs Fender conversation, and although Fender is one of the top guns in the guitar world not everyone thinks they are best. There are plenty of Fender owners out there who have a G&L in their collection, and rate it favorably compared to it’s older cousin. G&L…
Fender are one of the most well known and loved guitar brands, used by famous artists worldwide for many decades. Epiphone, although a well known brand, aren’t considered in the same league as Fender. However is that just general perception – or is there more to it? Epiphone electric guitars are cheaper than most Fender’s,…
Acoustic guitars can be pretty loud, and If you live in an apartment you might have heard a guitar being played in another room, maybe down the hallway or through the walls. For people who love hearing music this might be fine during the daytime, but for someone needing a quiet place to concentrate or…
