Teachers told her to play the masters instead of writing songs, but she was determined to create the sounds she heard in her head ...

For more than four decades, Willie Nelson's faithful guitar tuner, "Tunin' Tom" Hawkins, was as much a part of the legend behind Trigger as the guitar itself. Hawkins wasn't just a technician; he was ...

What if the strings of a guitar could float, untethered, held in place by nothing but invisible magnetic forces? It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Mattias Krantz outlines how he turned ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Baxter PR Jacob Collier is fast becoming a guitar hero for the modern age. That’s not ...

No matter how dextrous your fingers might be, if your best guitar is out of tune, you won’t sound great. Experienced musicians can often tune by ear, but even with years of experience under your belt, ...

A personal journey through the process of building a custom 7-string guitar with fanned frets and a headless design, highlighting challenges, craftsmanship, and the final result. Stephen Colbert Says ...

Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If you'd rather not use this automated tuning, or find that it doesn't quite work, you can tap a string to tune it ...

“The process of music is from brain to someone’s ear, basically. The less that gets in the way of that little journey, the better,” Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones once said. “Strings are the link ...