TEN REASONS for liking the Martin Guitar Museum, a marvelous raft over a three-century-old river of acoustic music: -10. The inviting atmosphere. Visitors are greeted by a two-way display case shaped ...

You can count Heart's Nancy Wilson among the musicians looking to pay tribute musically to the late guitar icon Eddie Van Halen. While speaking with All Things Considered's Dave Lawrence, Wilson ...

Hamer builds tools, and building tools is all it has ever done. What Hamer builds are the tools of rock ‘n’ roll. Buy an album, listen to the radio or watch television, and you’ll hear a Hamer guitar.

Martin guitars were instrumental in an auction of Eric Clapton’s guitars, amplifiers and memorabilia this week that raised $2.1 million for the Caribbean drug and alcohol treatment facility he founded ...

Don Fisher gave six of the country's best luthiers a directive so simple, it proved to be a huge challenge. Here's a list of the interests and personality traits of my family member, he told them. Use ...

Who: The 33-year-old, Nashville-born guitarist William Tyler has played with Lambchop for 13 years, while also serving as an occasional sideman for everyone from Bonnie Prince Billy to Wooden Wand and ...

A key feature of function and beauty on a guitar is ebony wood. All ebony used by Taylor Guitars, a leading manufacturer of acoustic guitars, comes from Cameroon, including the region where the ...