Strauss Partners With Levy’s for a Bush Fire Relief ‘Benefit Strap’
At 2020 Winter NAMM, Nita Strauss, famed musician and touring guitarist for Alice Cooper, previewed her first signature strap with Levy’s. Shortly after the preview of her signature strap, Levy’s…
Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation Announces 2019 Grants
Music students at Guitars in the Classroom based in San Diego, CA. The Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation announced at its December 2019 Trustee meeting that it awarded 52 grants to…
Gibson Gives: Nashville Tornado Relief
The Basement East venue in Nashville, post-hurricane (photo: Brittney Bremnes) In the wake of the recent severe storms in Nashville, Gibson Gives is stepping up for musicians and those who…
Marchione Guitars Employ SonoTone Premium Guitar Strings
After SonoTone premium strings founder PK Pandey sent luthier Stephen Marchione sets of SonoTone Symphonic and Vintage series strings to try on Marchione steel-string acoustic and electric guitars, respectively, Marchione…
Trade Regrets: Evelyn Brue-Roeder
On March 3, NAMM‘s Dan Del Fiorentino shared this sad news about someone featured repeatedly in MMR over the years: Evelyn Brue-Roeder passed away on February 1. She was 101.…
Whirlwind Founder Michael Laiacona Slated for Hall of Fame Induction
The Rochester Music Hall of Fame has named the inductees into its “Class of 2020,” with this year’s honorees including Whirlwind Audio president/founder Michael Laiacona, along with acoustic duet The…
On the Road Again: Acoustic Travel Guitars Take Off
Small-scale acoustic travel guitars are physically smaller and lighter instruments, but still generally with a full – or nearly full – scale length. The appeal of these guitars has been…
SonoTone Premium Strings (Vintage, 10-46)
So here’s one thing with guitar strings: much like picks, it can be very easily argued that there’s not really that much of a difference between types, brands, materials –…
Washburn P33S Royal Sapphire
What a lovely little acoustic! It’s not actually that little, but as a parlor guitar this model is comfortable to play, handle, and transport. “Royal Sapphire” refers to the deep…
Dissention in the Ranks: Acoustic Guitar Strings
Image by Couleur from Pixabay Possibly the one and only thing this month’s dealer survey (sent out to over 300 MI retailers) made clear is this: if you want to…
Defining the Classic Capo: Kyser at 40
If Kyser Capos founder Milton Kyser were alive to see his company turn 40 years old, he’d be beaming with pride and handing out his anniversary edition capos to everyone…
The Kids Are All Right
In my May 2019 editorial, I wrote the following: “Are you familiar with Billie Eilish? If not, don’t feel too bad. While millions of high-schoolers consider the singer/ songwriter to…