Hofner 500/1 Violin bass (Beatle bass) Most readers would recognise a Beatle bass – the violin shaped bass guitar that achieved celebrity status as Paul McCartney’s main instrument during the heyday of the Beatles’ live […]
We had some great features last year, including vintage guitars & amps, recording sessions and memoirs. Read them below: 1. Vintage Guitar Scene: 1963 Fender Stratocaster – Candy Apple Red: http://mandyh30.sg-host.com/vintage-guitar-of-the-month-1963-fender-stratocaster-candy-apple-red/ 2. Rob Snarski – […]
Songsters – the term will be familiar to those of a certain age with an interest in popular music of the day. Songsters were pocket sized booklets of song lyrics produced in Australia by the […]
In the early sixties when I was a guitar student, budget priced Japanese guitars were starting to become available, and my first experience of an electric guitar was one of these instruments that was owned […]
1938 Gibson L4 (Serial No. 95318) One Sunday morning in Perth in the summer of 1984 I was scanning the musical instruments section in the Sunday Times classifieds – as was my usual practice in […]
This Hagstrom guitar has the looks and sound for classic sixties surf music – pale blue and white plastic front, blue vinyl-covered body, high output single coil pickups and a tremolo arm. The tremolo is […]
1960 Gretsch 6125 Single Anniversary This guitar’s colour is probably its best feature – variously described as Cadillac green or avocado, but officially two-tone smoke green. Anniversary Models were not the finest of the golden […]
Where do guitar names originate? It’s generally known in guitar circles that the founder of the Australian guitar company Maton was Melbourne-born jazz musician, woodwork teacher and luthier Bill May, and that he came up […]
1963 Guild Thunderbird S-200 Serial No. 26363 A guitar with a built-in stand – How cool is that? Guild’s first attempt at a solid body back in 1963 probably has the distinction of being the […]
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