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Washburn guitars, with a tone that makes any room come alive, and a feel that’s as comfortable as an old friend. Washburn’s Dreadnought Series features fine tonewoods and resonant construction. Washburn Guitars became legendary on the music scene and formed the cornerstone for rock and roll and rhythm and blues. Washburn guitars slipped into the mid-priced market during the Thirties and were eclipsed by Gibson, Epiphone, Gretsch, Vega, National and other brands. Another problem was that Washburn was slow to get into the archtop, jazz guitar-style guitars that came into vogue during the Thirties.

Washburn Guitars are set to premier their newly designed Pilsen Idol guitar at this winter’s NAMM show in Anaheim. The Pilsen (named after a neighborhood in Chicago) is Washburn’s best value produced in the USA production facility. Washburn Guitars is pleased to announce the launch of their new Cracked Mirror Series with the introduction of the PS1800CMK and WV1800CMK guitars. The cracked mirror concept for a guitar originally stemmed from an idea that Paul Stanley had in the 70s.

Finished with a rosewood fingerboard and bridge, die-cast tuners, and pearloid dot fingerboard inlays, this is a guitar you will be proud to own. If you are an experienced player this makes a great second guitar for travel. Rest assured - you have 125 years of guitar making in every Washburn!

Gibson is among the top 10 best acoustic guitar brands in the market. Gibson’s luthiers have endowed the instrument with a full complement of enhancements such as double parallelogram mother-of-pearl inlays on the ebony fingerboard, antique gold hardware, a sculpted pickguard, 6-ply top binding, and an abalone rosette. And it offers superior performance with solid rosewood back and sides, solid Sitka spruce top, and an L.R. Gibson used the same type of carved, arched tops in archtop acoustic guitars, and by the 1930s was also making flattop acoustic guitars and electric guitars.

Charlie Christian, one of the first well-known electric guitarists, helped to popularize Gibson’s electric guitars with his use of the ES-150 and ES-200. Gibson continues to hand-build their guitars. Gibson restructured after being sold by Norlin, and began to move its Epiphone production to other Japanese manufacturers and to Korea.

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The Washburn guitar company started making guitars in 1883 in Chicago. The factory would later be involved and located near a musical movement in Chicago in the 1920s. The Washburn guitar’s controls include two volume, two tone, and a 3-way selector switch. All hardware is black chrome including a fixed TonePros bridge, stopbar tailpiece, and Grover tuners. This shows a guitar like this have came a long time ago to be tested as a long lasting brand.

The Washburn guitar brand has meant top quality for 120 years. Each guitar is designed and crafted by top notch employees. The washburn guitar company is a well established brand and its hardware and pick-ups are a very good quality. This guitar has single coil pick-ups at the bridge and center positions, and a humbucking pick-up at the bridge. The Washburn guitar comes out of the box looking and feeling like an old friend. The natural stain and the pure finish give it a smoky mountain feel and vibe.

The Washburn guitar will come with a new Deluxe Washburn padded gigbag with 2 large zippered pockets, 14 guitar picks that have never been used and are of different guages. Takamine uses the classic combination of spruce and mahogany, a combination that equals rich sound and long-lasting quality. Details aside, this is a great acoustic guitar.

Ibanez built star shaped models in the mid-1980s in its DT and DG series. As with most other “star” guitars, the body was a variant of the “Explorer” shape (called “Destroyer” by Ibanez) that had a roughly triangular section of its rear end cut out. Ibanez didn’t offer much in the way of a decent sounding acoustic until the Artist Series came out. Since then they have really improved.

Washburn Guitars, pioneering the world’s finest cutting-edge instruments for over 12 decades, has announced today of the release of a stylish yet affordable HM Import Guitar Series. The HM-Series is designed for superior tone and quality, the Import Series features a revolutionary Phenolic fretboard, providing the ultimate surface for fast riffs, arpeggios and runs.

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Nuno used his extensive knowledge of the guitar to design each of the N-Series guitars with an extremely fast neck with easy access to the higher frets. A Duncan ‘59 and a Lawrence L-500 in the bridge make this reverse headstock marvel wail. Nuno Bettencourt, Dimebag Darrell, Roger Waters, Bootsy Collins, and Jennifer Batten have the distinction of being some of the few artists ever to be honoured with a Washburn signature model guitar, as shown on their signature series pages. For over one hundred years, Washburn has built more than just great guitars, they’ve built a history.

Rosewood body, spruce top, hog neck with (what might be) ebony fingerboard. It is a beautiful little guitar and is surprisingly loud. Rosewood back and sides, and a solid cedar top enhance this guitar’s sparkling sonic capabilities.

Rosewood fingerboard with dot inlay make up the whole design with the feeling of finished perfect look. The guitar has a gloss finish, and usually comes with Quilted Vintage Sunburst color. The original guitar factory was located just blocks away from Maxwell Street. VCC is showcased in most Washburn guitars. VCC is actually featured on just about all Washburn guitars.

Steve first developed this at Hamer in his famous black metalflake SS2 guitar that had his signature written in pink largely across the upper position of the body, where your arm would rest. It also had multiple pink buttons for the effects. Steve Vai then reappeared onstage to announce the winners of an online auction of his personal Ibanez JemVai 2K DNA guitar; the winners were a couple that flew in from Italy to be there.

Acoustically, the guitar is very resonant with a nice ring on open strings - the set neck and Tone Pros hardware allow for excellent string-energy transfer. That resonance transfers well to the overdrive channel of our 50-watt Marshall running into a model 1960A 4×12″ cabinet producing a big, tight ballsy overdrive with complex overtones and very nice note separation.

Paul Stanley from Kiss has collaborated with Washburn to create a signature series of electric and acoustic guitars designed by Paul himself. The Washburn PS7000 electric guitar features a mahogany set neck and mahogany body, a rosewood fingerboard with trapezoid inlays, 2 Egnater humbucker pickups a tune-o-matic bridge and stop tailpiece.

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Washburn guitars were very popular during the 1920s. The musicians played the guitars as well as making them by hand. The Washburn guitar and the blues movement that it was involved with are associated with Maxwell Street. Washburn guitars have something for everyone, and fit into most budget ranges. You can try them out at a local Sam Ash store in the US, or hunt for another local retailer.

Washburn Guitars has built guitars in Chicago for working musicians for over one hundred years. The guys from Washburn guitars build guitars because it is their passion. Washburn Guitars played a large part in the musical movement of Chicago in the 1920’s and this has shaped the companies future.

Washburn Guitar’s dynamic 120-history began in Chicago in 1883 and is steeped in the tradition of fine instrument making. Washburn products reflect the hard-working spirit of the Washburn employees who craft and design each instrument.

Washburn guitars are all hand built guitars, and come in ultra costly and low priced quality models, which are sold as Lyon by Washburn, and Oscar Schmidt by Washburn. Washburn is feted for being the 1st guitar maker to use artist endorsements, as well as famous for building large-bodied Washburn acoustic guitars.

Washburn Guitars has announced the release of two new Scott Ian signature series guitars for 2008. The Anthrax guitarist is considered the undisputed king of ferocious rhythms in Metal. Washburn guitars have consistently been one of the leaders makers of innovative, hig-quality guitars for over 100 years. This Washburn guitar is three quarter size for smaller hands, has Rosewood Fingerboard and Bidge, the Rosewood Bridge has steel strings, it also has chrome covered tuner keys, and possibly most important: Hannah Montana themed graphics.

Nuno has also endorsed several Washburn acoustic models. Nuno began putting his ideas about the perfect guitar and the result was his signature model N4 electric. Also availble in a 6/12 string doubleneck, the N4 is a guitar that is ready to rock.

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Extreme tone with a ’70s vibe! The Fender Deluxe Strat HSS electric guitar combines two Tex-Mex single-coil pickups in the neck and middle positions with a Tex-Mex humbucking pickup in the bridge position. Special five-way switching offers a broad spectrum of tones. Comes equipped with a vintage tremolo, and a Fender deluxe gigbag.

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This Artist Series Strat is built for the blues and priced low so you don’t have to suffer if you want to play those blues. Features include Custom Shop pickups special wound to Cray’s specs, a hardtail bridge allows bold multistring bends, and Cray’s signature on the headstock.

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The American Special Stratocaster HSS features include an alder body with gloss urethane finish, 9.5″”-radius maple neck, jumbo frets, Texas Special middle and neck pickups, an Atomic humbucking bridge pickup, and vintage-style synchronized tremolo. The American Special Seriesguitars for the times.

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Four decades later the Mustang still has the punch that made it a trademark rocker! Originally conceived as a student model, it’s become a favorite of well-known pros.

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Fender has improved the classic resonator sound by adding a cutaway for easy-access and by installing a genuine Fender Texas Tele pickup along with a Fishman Powerchip and resonator pickup.

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Gibson guitars are known for their clarity of tone due to humbucker technology introduced in the late fifties. In terms of tone selection, the Les Paul Gibson is less versatile than a Strat, with only a three channel tone selector, a tone knob and two volume knobs. Gibson guitars, in particular the sunburst Gibson guitars, have become a popular collectors item over the past couple of years. Even though the sunburst has become popular, it seems that most collectors prefer the Gibson Les Paul guitars.

Gibson Guitars, known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, and banjos. The Gibson Les Paul guitar is the best selling guitar of all time and bears the name of the late, great Les Paul.

Gibson guitars are generally a bit more popular than fender guitars. It is all based on personal preference. Interestingly, despite its lengthy list of endorsing artists of various musical orientations, ESP only manufacture signature guitars for a selected few of rock players.

Fender and Gibson guitars, so closely entwined with visions of America and American popular culture, are very much among those revered icons in Japan. Soon, the production of guitars became the mainstay and Gibson introduced numerous innovative guitar designs.

The Gibson guitar is a solid body guitar, which costs nearly 2300 Dollars. Today there are so many types Gibson guitars available that can be configured within 2 seconds as they are based on Gibson’s robotic technology. The Gibson Guitars Hummingbird model’s neck is made of up to three different pieces. The wing blocks are added to the Gibson Guitars Hummingbird and the fingerboards are assembled.

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Gibson guitars offers one of the largest selections of electric guitars. Their most famous guitar, the Les Paul provides fat, rich tone and incredible sustain for all guitar styles from jazz to heavy metal and is available in dozens of different models including Supreme, Classic, Standard, Studio and Classic Antique. Gibson guitars were favoured by many professional and amateur musicians and guitar players for many years. The company was started by Orville Gibson in 1902 and was initially producing mandolins, later extending their range of products to guitars as well. Gibson Guitars Corporation is probably the best known of all the world’s thousands of guitar companies. They have had numerous hugely successful and iconic guitars in their range, most of which are still made today.

Gibson Guitars have since made purely professional guitars for the lead guitarists, which are also known as signature guitars. These were made after consultation with them, so as to know the different patterns, styles and measurements, which would suit these professionals the best. Gibson guitars have been around for well over a century. When guitarists are looking for an outstanding combination of superb tone and playability along with great looks and gorgeous finishes, the choice for most of those 100 plus years has been Gibson. Gibson Guitars: Ted McCarty’s Golden Era is a long overdue book that covers the world’s greatest period of guitar manufacturing. As CEO of Gibson Guitars from 1948 to 1966, Ted McCarty presided over the production of nearly one million instruments and amplifiers.

Gibson guitars have been around forever. It’s funny, but although Gibson has produced some of the most amazing guitars in history, perhaps the company’s largest contribution to music has been through their advancements in pickup technology.

Gibson guitars are of the highest quality and come in many different varieties, so that every guitar player is safe, the right model to suit your personality and to find ways to play. If you study with us to play the guitar, think about buying a Gibson guitar for his experience to use for beginners. Gibson guitars from the “Golden Era” remain some of the most sought after instruments on the vintage market, and rightfully so. Gibson Guitars had the idea to introduce the cut away style in the body shape. This was to be forever used in future electric guitars and many acoustic guitars and led to the world of the lead guitar hero.

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The Gibson guitars they imported however would soon turn into the basis for their first electric guitar designs just a short time later. By 1958 Hagstrom designed and released their first guitar, closely modeled off of the Gibson Les Paul 1957 electric guitar. The Gibson guitars were then built by Norlin the company that bought Gibson, and there were similar stories of lack of concern for materials and workmanship.

The Gibson guitars, electric and acoustic, never suffered from any of this, mostly because a guitar isn’t as adjustable as a banjo. Gibson pays more attention to the guitars, because there are millions of guitar players - the guitar is the most popular instrument in the world, but banjo sales are very piddly in comparison, even at the height of the recent boom.

Stockdale plays Gibson guitars, primarily a 1972 SG standard with a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece in vintage sunburst. For the recording of the Wolfmother album he used a borrowed Gibson ES-355 through a 1960s Marshall. Stockdale also states to use a Fender Stratocaster, though he prefers the Gibson guitars. In recent times he has also started using a Hohner Blues Master Harmonica microphone for some vocals.

But the Destroyer Bass wasn’t a blatant copy of the Explorer bass; it did not have the Kalamazoo creation’s short scale or banjo-style tuners, a la Gibson’s first electric bass (the violin-shaped EB) and other Gibsons of the era. But, like its Gibson inspiration, the Ibanez does have a scimitar/banana-shaped headstock and a serial number embossed on the back of the headstock that indicates a manufacture date of August, 1977.

Heritage has also introduced several new designs, most notably the Millennium models, which employ a semi-solid body that is more solid than a traditional semi-hollow design, but chambered, and thus less solid than a typical solid body. Ibanez has a long and varied history dating back over 100 years. The company began life in Japan in 1908 originally as the Hoshino Gakki manufacturing and selling stringed instruments.

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Vintage guitars from Gibson attract outrageous prices. Vintage and limited edition Gibson and Epiphone guitars are a great investment that only increases in value. In particular vintage Gibson guitars have consistently performed with more stability than the stock market. Vintage symbolizes classic and enduring appeal which lasts for years. In simple words it the excellent quality of a product which people still think of and admire even after years had passed since its last production.

Vintage guitars built from the mid 1950s until the late 1970s are generally held in high esteem; techniques and materials, particularly pre-1970 were vastly superior to todays ‘mass-produced’ standards. The musical revolutions occuring during this period created the first well-known guitar heroes, and gave their guitars iconic status.

Archtop guitars were anon adopted aloft their absolution by both applesauce and country musicians and accept remained decidedly accepted in applesauce music, usually application thicker strings (higher gauged annular anguish and collapsed wound) than accepted acoustic guitars. The electric alveolate anatomy archtop guitar has a audible complete amid electric guitars and is appropriately adapted for abounding styles of bedrock and roll. Archtop guitars are often used in conjunction with attachments designed to create or increase vibrato, a slightly tremulous effect that adds warmth and expressiveness to music. A tremolo arm, for example, is a lever attached to the guitar’s bridge.

Eventually, Gibson had to falter out of the traditional profile and try new designs. Acoustic guitar is an instrument that has a hollow body and produce music that is melodious to hear. Acoustic guitar is usually classified into three types of classical guitar, steel-string acoustic, and archtop guitars. Acoustic guitars are descendants of stringed instruments that were found in a variety of cultures thousands and thousands of years ago. As civilizations merged and the world became smaller, the guitar began taking on a unified shape and style.

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There’s nothing better than a great-sounding guitar that’s also a sweet deal. The Ibanez AC35ECENT fits the bill perfectly, giving you the kind of great value Ibanez Artwoods are known for. Highlights include a warm-sounding Cedar top, Rosewood bridge and fretboard, and Ibanez electronics. Features a Grand Concert body with Mahogany back and sides.

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The Ibanez RG 321MH electric guitar features a 3-piece bolt-on maple neck with a wizard II profile, a mahogany body, 24-fret bound rosewood fingerboard, black hardware, Infinity pickups, and a fixed bridge.

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The Ibanez XPT700 is your chance to produce some jaw-dropping heavy sounds on a guitar with some killer looks. Features a neck-thru construction for extreme playability, an Edge III Tremolo for extraordinary tuning stability, and a “”Chameleon”" finish that responds to light and gives the appearance of changing colors as the guitar moves. Oh, and there’s that all-new Ibanez X shape that will stop audiences in their tracks.

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Slim necks, feedback resistant bodies, warm resonant tones, and attractive finishes define Ibanez AE acoustic-electrics. The AEL20ETBS features a gloss trans blue sunburst finish, a flamed maple top, maple back and sides, pearl dot inlays, Fishman Sonicore Pickup system and more!

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