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  1. “A desirable icon of both Eighties/Nineties nostalgia and futuristic innovation”: Steinberger's ultra-minimalist, brilliantly engineered GL guitars were revolutionary. And their impact still lives on today

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  2. “The first accessible guitar ever made”: Blind guitarist didn’t realize fret markers were a thing – until he was given a game-changing guitar with a tactile ‘navigation neck’

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  3. “I got it for 800 bucks, and it became an important guitar. I took it over to Jake Kiszka’s house – he whipped out a case and he had the same one”: Mirador’s Chris Turpin on the ‘sleeper’ star of his vintage guitar collection

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  4. “I gave Eddie Van Halen the parts, and the next time I saw the guitar he had used a spray can to paint it white with black stripes”: How Charvel spawned a custom shop revolution – and became the premier guitar maker in the age of shredders

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  5. “It’s like if you found out Harry Potter’s scar wasn’t from battling Voldemort but done under anesthetic on Harley Street”: The case for and against guitar relicing

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  6. “Gibson would have been aware of the popularity of Fender vibratos and maybe considered Bigsbys to be too expensive or too closely associated with Gretsch. Either way, the company devised its own”: What this Golden Era ’63 SG tells us about Gibson design

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  7. Martin caves to player demand and revives its smallest guitar body shape – but it’s not tuned like your regular acoustic

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  8. “His impact will live on for generations”: Wayne Charvel, legendary luthier who built guitars for Eddie Van Halen and gave rise to the Superstrat, dies aged 85

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  9. “We told their manager we were open to making them a guitar. Two weeks later they were touring our factory”: The making of Angine de Poitrine’s new Godin double-neck – and why it’s not a signature model (yet)

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  10. “I heard this car come roaring up… Jeff’s coming out and he’s holding this guitar. He said, ‘Here, this is yours for getting me in the Yardbirds’”: The story of the Fender Telecaster that unites Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

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  11. “I was getting calls from George Harrison and Eric Clapton’s group. They were working together. And what were they interested in? The J-180 and J-185”: Inside Gibson's Century Collection acoustics – and the role the Rolling Stones and Beatles played

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  12. "Once I'm playing, the Hush X Live feels much more like a 'real' guitar than the novelty I was first expecting." Donner Hush X Live Pro review

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  13. “Thomann isn’t a small independent guitar builder... It is one of the world’s largest instrument retailers and the owner of one of Europe’s largest guitar brands”: Fender fires back at Thomann and sues for copyright infringement – read the full statement

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  14. “A full-bodied response that would undoubtedly work a treat with flat-wound strings”: Fender Vintera III Late ‘60s Precision Bass review

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  15. Fender's dive to the bottom continues with a copyright legal threat to #Yamaha, the largest musical instrument maker in the world, over the #Pacifica, a design they've made for over 30 years.

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  16. Fender's dive to the bottom continues with a copyright legal threat to #Yamaha, the largest musical instrument maker in the world, over the #Pacifica, a design they've made for over 30 years.

    youtube.com/watch?v=u6UVmhOLFts

    #fender #stratocaster #guitars #FenderLawsuit

  17. Fender's dive to the bottom continues with a copyright legal threat to #Yamaha, the largest musical instrument maker in the world, over the #Pacifica, a design they've made for over 30 years.

    youtube.com/watch?v=u6UVmhOLFts

    #fender #stratocaster #guitars #FenderLawsuit

  18. Fender's dive to the bottom continues with a copyright legal threat to , the largest musical instrument maker in the world, over the , a design they've made for over 30 years.

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  19. Fender's dive to the bottom continues with a copyright legal threat to #Yamaha, the largest musical instrument maker in the world, over the #Pacifica, a design they've made for over 30 years.

    youtube.com/watch?v=u6UVmhOLFts

    #fender #stratocaster #guitars #FenderLawsuit

  20. More new guitar body shapes? Kiesel continues the push to keep the electric guitar fresh by launching a daring metal offset

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  21. “Die-hards will be saying, ‘That’s not a Les Paul!’ But playing and living with an LP of this weight is simply a pleasure”: Gibson Les Paul Studio Double Trouble review

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  22. "It’s deceptively versatile – I can see it finding fans beyond just those who worship at the temple of Wes”: Jackson Pro Series Signature Wes Borland King V review

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  23. “It was kind of a wild idea in 1960 to call a guitar a Hummingbird. As wild as calling your band TheBeatles”: How Gibson became an icon of acoustic guitar – 100 years on from its first flat-top

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  24. “There was deep weathering after decades of abuse. As for the guitar – that looked pretty good”: Eric Clapton’s long-lost Les Paul has re-emerged after 60 years – the weird trend of famous guitars going missing, and coming back

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  25. “This makes it feel exciting all over again”: Jim Root’s signature Fender reinvented the Telecaster and was praised by John Mayer – now it’s back with a key twist

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  26. “He handed me a 1970s maple-neck, Walnut-finish Mustang Bass loaded with flats. I was instantly hooked”: What this perfect pair of vintage Fenders tells us about collecting gear

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  27. If I wasn't trying to get rid of, not buy more, #guitars... There's a bound black MIC #Hamer Standard on Reverb for $500 w/case.

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  28. If I wasn't trying to get rid of, not buy more, #guitars... There's a bound black MIC #Hamer Standard on Reverb for $500 w/case.

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