Your Guitar Needs Humidity! Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke BSEd, MA "songthief" Besides the structural and wood protecting aspect of using a humidifier, there are also sonic benefits.If you're interested in seeing...
Strings for an Acoustic Guitar If you have an acoustic guitar then part of the fun is trying different strings to find out which sounds best and is easiest to play. In 35 years of playing, I've tried...
Why Guitar Strings Break! Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke BSEd, MA "songthief" Strings Breaking? Let's consider, for a minute, the physical make up of guitar strings. The plain strings, and the core wires of...
Round Core vs Hex Core Guitar Strings Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke BSEd, MA "songthief" Round Core Guitar Strings History The theory of round core wires has roots in violin family instruments and piano/harp...
IT STARTED BY ME SEEING SOME BEATIFULLY INLAID GUITARS ON EBAY, THEY WERE REALLY INEXPENSIVE SO I PURCHASED ONE, I LOVED IT!! SO I BOUGHT ANOTHER, THEN 3 MORE, THEN 5 MANDOLINS. IVE GOT TO KNOW THESE GUYS...
HELLO IM HOPING TO HELP SOMEONE NOT BE SCAMMMED LIKE I HAVE BEEN .USER ID FORTKNOXPAWN, SOLD ME A SUPPOSED TO BE D28 MARTIN FOR $800, I RECIEVED THE GUITAR IT WAS A CHEAP $50 GUITAR WITH A MARTIN STICKER, I...
Playing Bluegrass on guitar--whether lead or accompaniment--requires more from the strings than if you are just playing and singing solo. That is because you're in the midst of a banjo, mandolin, fiddle and...
Mandolin String Winders Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke BSEd, MA 'songthief Letters...I get letters! Well, actually I don't get "letters" I get emails.Well, actually again, those emails contain words which are...
Many musicians with electric-acoustic guitars wonder what is the ideal type of strings to use on their instruments. Should you use electric guitar strings or acoustic guitar strings? David Zanoni of Da-Vez...
How do Martin's SP Fingerstyle Strings Differ from their Regular SP Strings? by Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke BSEd, MA "songthief" C.F. Martin's new SP Fingerstyle is a regular SP string with it's...