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“That fine line between a trainwreck and a stroke of genius is exactly what Ted McCarty tapped into”: The Gibson Flying V – how a misunderstood design conquered the guitar world (opens the original)
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Few guitars command the attention quite like the Gibson Flying V. As a young, aspiring guitarist, I remember that I was totally mesmerized by how aggressive it looked, only to realize that playing one sitting down was a total mess; it kept sliding right off my lap. It’s a weird design that you have to adjust to, but that fine line between a trainwreck and a stroke of genius is exactly what Ted McCarty tapped into during Gibson’s ‘modernist’ push in 1957. Crafted from African korina wood, featuri
The rise of stainless steel frets: why players are making the switch, and what makes them better than traditional nickel (opens the original)
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Innovation Week: For most of the electric guitar’s history, frets were something players simply accepted would wear out. Bend enough strings, play enough gigs and sooner or later those shiny crowns develop flat spots and divots. Then came stainless steel: harder, smoother and so durable that, for many players, they’ll never have to worry about another fret job. Traditional fretwire is generally a copper/nickel alloy. It’s easy for a repair tech to cut, seat, level and crown but it eventually wea
“I ran over to the student center, unenrolled from all my classes and hit the road”: Noah Kahan was an unknown when his guitarist got the gig. Now he’s playing Fenway Park with his own signature guitar (opens the original)
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Noah Levine was three semesters into Berklee College of Music, and two weeks into an internship with producer Gabe Simon, when a rising songwriter named Noah Kahan asked him to try a guitar solo on an unfinished song. Levine’s second take for Homesick was kept. A few weeks later, Kahan called Levine at seven in the morning, asking him to drop everything and join his touring band. “I ran over to the student center, unenrolled from all my classes and hit the road,” Levine says. Kahan hadn’t yet re
20 gear innovations that changed guitar playing (opens the original)
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From the first solidbody breakthroughs of the 1950s to today’s digital rigs, guitar innovation has never really stopped. This list looks at some of the most innovative products to reshape the instrument, its amplification and the way players create sound. Some were radical leaps, others clever refinements, but each changed what guitarists could do and pushed the instrument somewhere new. Leo Fender was not trying to make history, he was trying to build a guitar a working musician could repair wi
Ditch the soldering iron: you can swap pickups in seconds with these guitars (opens the original)
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Innovation Week: For most of the electric guitar’s history, changing pickups has meant commitment. Strings come off, screws come out, the control cavity opens and somewhere along the way a soldering iron gets hot. That’s fine if you’re installing a favorite set for good. Not so appealing if you simply want to try a different pickup five minutes later. The idea of quick change pickups is not new. Dan Armstrong’s clear Ampeg guitars, launched in 1969, used interchangeable pickups that could slide
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