Are they living things? They seem to have a presence about them..

Are they time machines? I'm hearing notes come out of a small wooden box that someone heard in the late 1800s when the instrument was hanging in a…

It was 1984. I was wrapping up my senior year of high school in Southern Cal. After years of being a less than stellar student, I managed to eke my way into Northwestern University's School of Music. My folks were…

A good instrument will invite a player to reach outside his comfort zone. In my case with having smaller hands, it's stretching for those killer jazz chords!

Behold, the Challen piano from Abbey Road Studios! It was used on some very pretty Beatles songs like "Fool on the Hill", "A Day in the Life", "Lady Madonna" and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da".

Back in August of 2023, I actually got…

For me there have only been a few instruments that carry in them a certain extra special magic. One in particular is the Rickenbaker 12 string electric guitar. I first heard it's jangle on the Beatles VI album. Then later…

I bought this little SX travel guitar from Rondo Music back in 2024 for only $125 (including the case). It's magic is the super thin real spruce top. The size of the body places the sound somewhere in banjo/mandolin territory.…

If you are a guitar player, I highly recommend that you don't wait as long as I did to get yourself a bass.

Why? Because the approach and technique are so different and yet we sort of know this instrument…