Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...

As D’Addario celebrates its 50-year anniversary, we speak to its current chairman about the company’s roots, breakthroughs and next moves, and learn how the family has been making strings for centurie ...

The Grail and the Lotus; Cathedrals Et Fleur De Lis; Pasha II; A Study for Steel String; Ackerman Special; Apres Midi American; Variations on Grieg; Scottish Rites; Pavan India; Variations on Ezumi; ...

You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before ... Pedal steels are strange devices, looking somewhat like a 10-string guitar with levers that change the pitch of individual strings.

The Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and early '30s was a pivotal era that helped shape the modern steel-string acoustic ...