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...
Comparing The Two Classics,TI Jazz/Bebop vs D'Addario Chromes If you play jazz, bebop, swing, fusion, surf,just about any non-metal rock electric guitar style,it's quite likely that you find yourself...
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...
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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...
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The way guitar stores market electric guitars, you would think the shape and color of the guitar had something to do with the way it sounded. But in reality it's primarily the Pickups and the Strings that...
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...
SAVE THOSE USED BASS STRINGS! If we are Bass players and I proudly am as I play just about anything with strings except the piano, and that doesn't mean I don't try when I am near one. So, being a...