On a recent visit to Real Guitars in San Francisco, shopkeeper Ben Levin told me sellers usually lower the tuning on 12-strings when putting them out for display. It keeps tension down and makes ...

Appropriately named, the 12-string acoustic guitar is an acoustic instrument that features 6 courses of two strings each. The lower four strings (E, A, D, G) are paired with strings that are normally ...

It’s built into a toy guitar that he takes on road trips with him. By adding a row of RGB LEDs between two of the frets he can use the vibration frequency of an in-tune string to flash the three ...

Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need ...

A guitar tuner makes sure that all of your strings (whether you play electric, acoustic, bass or ukulele) are in tune with each other, so that when you play a chord, the intervals within it are ...