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Visit The Shop Shop Online Now Visit The Shop Shop Online Now 3 Guitar Info Identifying vintage instruments, and related info. History The history of music and musical instruments. Shop Guitars, mandolins, banjos & ukes for sale. Museum Museum of significant...

Notable Guitar Sales

Notable Guitar Sales The guitar has become an icon of the role of popular music in American culture. One direct consequence is the rise in the value of iconic instruments. In this example, ‘iconic’ means: owned and played by someone special. An example would be the...

Guitars & Stringed Instruments – General Information

Guitars & Stringed Instruments General Information Back to Research > Guitar Information Stringed Instruments of the Guitar Family: OM Slope Shoulder Dreadnought Square Shoulder Dreadnought Archtop Guitar Selmer-Maccaferri Guitars Resonator Guitars Lap Steels...

John and Alan Lomax

John and Alan Lomax Research > History > Musical Styles and Venues in America > John and Alan Lomax Edited and expanded from research from Wikipedia and other sources by Leonard Wyeth With the help and support of the Library of Congress; many (or most) of the...

Bluegrass

Bluegrass Back to Research > History > Musical Styles and Venues in America (Bill Monroe. Credit: Thomas S. England/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Before radio, records, CDs, amplifiers, movies, TV, video and Apple, there were acoustic instruments. In...

Vaudeville

Vaudeville Back to History > Musical Styles and Venues in America 1871 – Vaudeville ‘Vaudeville’ comes from the French “vaux de ville”: ‘worth of the city’ or worthy of the city’s patronage. Like everything else in Vaudeville, however, the...

Guitar & Banjo Tunings

Guitar & Banjo Tunings Back to Research > Guitar Information This page is divided into two sections: Guitar Banjo The following information has been gathered to help sort out options for instrument tuning. It is intended to serve the following purposes: To...