When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Over the last decade or so, the seven-string guitar has gone from being a rarity to a standard ...

If you've tried to digitally capture a guitar performance or turn your six-string into a powerful MIDI synth using an interface or special pickup, you'll no doubt be familiar with signal lag and pitch ...

Pushing a string up or pulling it down raises the pitch of the note you're playing. This is called string bending. The technique can be used to create singing, vocal-like phrases that other ...

For The New York Times for Kids, the photographer Christopher Payne visited the Martin Guitars factory to see how humans and machines make music. Credit... Supported by Photographs by Christopher ...

How often should guitar strings be changed? There isn’t a simple answer. Because strings wear out at different rates based on your environment, how you play and even your body chemistry, I can’t tell ...