Hofner basses are in great demand!  Too great in fact. Our vintage inventory is rapidly diminishing and the new gear is coming in slowly. The dollar-Euro bus...

For the past year or so I had been getting my Visual Sound guitar effects from Fender. I had been very happy with that arrangement, but was unable to get eve...

Probably the biggest news has been Taylor’s new solid body guitars. They are two pickup, single cutaway instruments that look spectacular any being Taylor’s ...

American made Fender gear is really hot! The Eric Johnson Stratocaster is rightfully one of our most popular instruments. I love the neck design, nitrocellul...

Cliff Cooper opened the Orange Musical Instrument Shop in London, England in 1968 and is still running things. I have carried Orange Amplifification products...

According to Ko’olau, a builder of  highest quality ukuleles in Hawaii, the ukulele  which was called a Braguinha traveled from Braga Portugal with 1879 with...

At some point in the future David and I will do a photo essay on restringing, but haven’t got to yet. For now, this is something you can do about twice a yea...

For those of us fortunate enough to live in New England really need to recognize that our instruments may not feel as fortunate. Our climate while great for ...

For many years now I have always had at least one guitar in the shop set up in Nashville Tuning. I have no idea when or how I learned about this, it seems to...