Not Dan Crary. The veteran, American, steel-string guitar virtuoso has been researching the history of the instrument and read claims that each historic figure played a cithara, a stringed ...

It works much better for fingerpicking than strumming in our experience; fingertips help to soften the top-end and release some of the guitar's inherent sweetness. The supplied D'Addario EJ16 Phosphor ...

The three instruments include a single-humbucker Les Paul Jr.-style six-string (MSRP £750) with a tune-o-matic bridge, a five-string bass model and a more Fender-y flat-top guitar (MSRP £699) with an ...

And not just any guitars, but World War II-vintage "Banner Era" Gibson acoustic flat top guitars widely recognized as among the best ever made. Thomas and Portland, Ore., musician Lauren Sheehan ...

During the 4th of July around the turn of the century, John won first in the National Country Musician Beginner Flat Top Guitar competition at Smithville, Tn. Not bad for a 12-year-old his first ...

We bought a flat-top in Steele, Missouri.” (He also said Johnson loved the Kalamazoo archtop.) The KG-14 is thought by some blues enthusiasts to be the guitar that Johnson played during his ...