Inventor Paul Vo‘s latest crazy musical innovation is a hand-held wand that changes the sound of guitars like magic. Hold it up to a guitar string, and it’ll vibrate forever. Depending how you use the ...

How precisely does an acoustic guitar or violin produce its sweet sound? There is a simple, centuries-old way to literally "see" the vibrational patterns that cause the guitar to resonate and produce ...

Like many players of a certain age, my first guitar was a nylon-string. I don’t think it had a brand name, but it was definitely a cheapo. I’d caught the rock ’n’ roll bug much earlier, which meant ...

Sound is a type of energy made by vibrations. When an object, such as a guitar’s string, vibrates it causes the air particles around it to vibrate too. This is because the vibration of an object ...

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 to ...