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| Elvis Costello Signature Jazzmaster |
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Fender announces a new Elvis Costello Signature Jazzmaster guitar, honoring one of the most recognized Jazzmaster players in music history. The iconic electric guitar, produced in Fender's manufacturing headquarter in Corona, CA. is a detailed replica of Costello's original instrument, a guitar that has continually accompanied the famed British singer/songwriter over an extraordinarily versatile and prolific career spanning four decades. This signature release comes during the 50 year anniversary of Fender's introduction of the Jazzmaster guitar model, which first appeared in 1958. |
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| Sierra Guitars Introduces the New Sierra Compass Acoustic |
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| Sierra Guitars is delighted to introduce the newest addition to the Sierra Guitar line, the Sierra Compass. The Sierra Compass ST10 is a travel-size acoustic guitar that will be introduced for the first time at Winter NAMM 2008! Inspired by the beauty of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Sierra brings a fresh, organic approach to guitar design, while utilizing high-quality materials resulting in a clean, earthy acoustic tone. |
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| Yngwie Malmsteen and Fender Custom Shop Exclusive Collaboration |
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| The name Yngwie Malmsteen strikes awestruck wonder into the hearts of guitarists worldwide. Yngwie Malmsteen the Swedish Stratocaster® wunderkind; the fiery and flamboyant showman extraordinaire; the charmingly outspoken enfant terrible of metal; the Paganini of the electric guitar. His classically inspired fleet-fingered technique and apocalyptic guitar sound continue to mesmerize listeners today just as they did when the world first felt his Fender fueled fury in the early 1980s with Steeler, Alcatrazz and Malmsteen’s landmark 1984 solo debut, Rising Force. |
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| The New MHG Soltero Model From Dean Guitars |
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| The new MHG Soltero is a Dean USA original deep carved mahogany body with a natural "open grain" finish. However, unlike the traditional mahogany bodies found on other classic designs, the MHG Soltero features acoustically optimized chambered bodies which reduce the overall weight of the instrument to less than 8 lbs, while maintaining the warm, well balanced tonal properties of a solid mahogany body. |
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| Fender Offers 8 New Hot Rod Enclosures |
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| Fenders new Hot Rod Deluxe 112 Enclosures are designed to add more juice and more colors to a variety of combo amps, and they fit neatly beneath our Hot Rod Deluxe and Blues Deluxe combos. Choose from 8 different colors. Black,Blonde,Brown,Emerald,Texas Red,Tweed, Laquered Tweed and White Lightning. |
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| CA guitars on the road with Elixir® strings |
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| CA Guitars, a premier builder of carbon fiber acoustic guitars, is going mobile with the introduction of its new Cargo model; a travel-sized extra-small-body acoustic guitar. Like all of the models in the CA catalogue, the Cargo will be outfitted with Elixir® Strings, pioneer of long-life strings. |
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| National Guitar Workshop 2008 Season |
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| The National Guitar Workshop announces the curriculum and guest artists for the 2008 season. This year's program will feature Paul Gilbert, Lisa Loeb, The John Scofield Trio featuring Bill Stewart and Steve Swallow, Kenny Burrell, Michael Angelo Batio, Jennifer Batten, Eric Krasno, Laurence Juber, Sonny Landreth, and more. Courses will be offered in rock, blues, jazz, country, classical, music technology, songwriting, and guitar exploration. |
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| Gibson sues retailers over Activision's Guitar Hero |
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| Gibson Guitar Corp. today sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and five other major retailers that sell the Activision "Guitar Hero" game, claiming it violates a patent it holds. A federal lawsuit filed Monday claims Wal-Mart, Target Corp., Kmart, Amazon.com, GameStop Corp. and Toys "R" Us should stop selling the game.Gibson has already tried to stop video game publisher Activision Inc. from selling all versions of the game, claiming it too closely matches a musical virtual-reality patent from 1999. |
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| Martin Celebrates 175th Anniversary |
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| C.F. Martin & Company is celebrating its 175th Anniversary as the oldest surviving maker of guitars in the world. Currently the largest producer of acoustic guitars in the United States, the company is highly regarded for creating some of the finest instruments and introducing innovations that have become industry standards in the music products industry. The company, founded in the U.S., has been continuously family owned and operated for six generations. Currently headed by Chairman and CEO Christian Frederick Martin IV, the company has prospered as it has been handed down five times since it was started by German immigrant Christian Frederick Martin, Sr. in 1833. |
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| Jeff Healey dies at 41 |
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| Guitar wizard Norman Jeff Healey of Toronto died Sunday of cancer. He was 41.Healey was considered a prodigy and earned numerous Juno and Grammy nominations in the course of his career. He lost both his eyes to retinoblastoma before he was eight-months-old, but never let that slow him down. |
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| Did You Know? |
Chords taken from a parallel tonality to use in primary tonality is called model interchange
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| Archived Files |
| Saturday, March 01 | | · | New Italia Imola 6 Electric Guitar |
| Friday, February 29 | | · | Slash Signature Les Pauls from Gibson Custom, USA and Epiphone |
| · | Albert Lee & John Petrucci Baritone Models By Ernie Ball |
| Thursday, February 07 | | · | 2008 Guitar of the Month Series |
| · | Visual Sounds 2008 Pedal Lineup |
| Wednesday, February 06 | | · | Limited Edition Seagull 25th Anniversary guitars |
| · | LPD Music Unveils New Premium Paracho Elite Guitar Line |
| · | The All New American Standard Series |
| · | New Guitars from Gibson 2008 |
| · | Gibson Guitars May Help Provide Forestry Jobs |
| Tuesday, February 05 | | · | The Jemini Steve Vai Signature Effects Pedal |
| · | New MXR M-159 Tremolo Pedal By Dunlop |
| Monday, January 07 | | · | Eric Johnson gets his own custom Guitar Pick |
| · | New Dan Armstrong AMG100 Electric Guitar |
| Saturday, December 22 | | · | BSM - RMG Treble Booster Pedal |
| Wednesday, November 28 | | · | National Guitar Workshop Present Guitar Atlas Cuba |
| · | Three New Effects Pedals From Behringer |
| Saturday, November 10 | | · | The Gibson Robot Guitar |
| Thursday, November 01 | | · | PRS Mira Electric Guitar |
| Tuesday, October 23 | | · | New Compressor Pedal From Hartman Electronics |
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