Even for experienced steel-string guitar players, the world of nylon-string and classical guitar can be intimidating. There is a lot of jargon, much of it in Spanish, and an entire vocabulary of new ...

Discover how Greek master luthier Vassilis Vassiliadis crafts world-class, custom classical guitars using engineering physics ...

Will's prompt got me thinking. Glenn Branca renders his music on a huge scale: Many of his signature works are long pieces scored for extremely loud forces of alternately tuned (and often rebuilt) ...

Classical guitar virtuoso David Russell explains why his choice of instrument is helping to revive and spark new interest in the music of composers such as JS Bach and his contemporaries. In today's ...

World-renowned classical guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita died of an illness on Jan. 24. He was 64. Close family members held a private funeral with his eldest daughter, Koyumi, as chief mourner.

Sonic expansion or evolutionary dead-end? The acoustic-electric has undergone a radical reinvention over the years ...

At last year’s NAMM show, Taylor announced its Grand Pacific round-shoulder dreadnought developed by master guitar designer Andy Powers. Company experts announced that the new body shape and other ...