AXL Jacknife
Looking a bit like Flying V that was given a makeover by medieval armorers, the Axl Jackknife ($299 retail/$224 street) sports decent fretwork, a good setup, and feels surprisingly light and nimble for a guitar of its proportions.
It’s a good sounding guitar, too, with a voice that’s as fat and squawky as you’d expect [...]
Richard Neesal asked: Choosing the right electric guitar relies on many different factors such as the type of music that is going to be played, how often the guitar will be played and where.
For those learning to play the electric guitar, finding a good one to learn on is important, especially when knowing the fingers [...]
Designed by exotic Swiss guitar maker Claudio Pagelli (pagelliguitars.com), the Pagelli ($795 retail/$450 street) is one of sleekest and most distinctive Cort models we’ve ever seen. This set-neck guitar plays fabulously, and it sounds lively and resonant. Its tones are warm and sustaining, and, thanks to its clear-yet-strong pickups, it can handle blues, rock, jazz, [...]
Peter Suhm asked: Ibanez electric guitars are inseparable from their Japanese roots as the Hoshino Gakki musical Instrument Co. in Japan imported Salvador Ibanez instruments as far back as the late 1920s. The Ibanez Company was eventually bought by Hoshino Gakki and by the late 1950s Ibanez electric guitars were being fabricated solely in Japan. [...]
Peter Suhm asked: What is a left-handed electric guitar? Can’t you just flip a regular electric guitar over, string it backwards, and call it a left-handed guitar? Well, maybe south paw acoustic guitar players can do that, but for any serious guitarist, that is sacrilege. As for the left-handed electric guitarist, however, that is simply [...]
Peter Suhm asked: Yamaha electric guitars are produced by a company with more than 100 years of experience and expertise in making musical instruments. The brand stands on a good and proven record of quality products. Yamaha fabricated its first electric guitar in 1966 at its factory in Central Japan. One of Yamaha’s core values [...]
Peter Clark asked: So you’ve wanted to be a rock star since before you could walk, but to really be a rock star you need to learn how to play the electric guitar. After all, the guitar players are always the ones at the front of the stage aren’t they?
Problem is it’s not easy to [...]
Peter Suhm asked: Acoustic electric guitars: is this not a contradiction in terms? After all, “acoustic” describes music, or a musical instrument that is not electronically amplified; “electric” however, implies that the music or musical instrument is electronically amplified. Well actually, the wonderful thing about acoustic electric guitars is that they combine both the qualities [...]
Richard Neesal asked: The actual date and time of the invention of the electric guitar hasn’t ever been recognized, although it was first seen in the early 1930’s by members of orchestras and musicians. The inventors of the electric guitar at that time, who were electronically minded individuals, realized that the guitar needed to be [...]
Peter Suhm asked: Electric guitar amps come in such an array of power, special abilities, and specific purposes that it would be easy to become overwhelmed by it all. This article will present basic information about electric guitar amps. In the simplest of guitar amps there is at least a volume control and most even [...]
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