I’m old enough to remember musicians getting angry over Guitar Hero. But they always seemed to be missing the point. Nobody ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...

A look at the history of the ancient Arabic ancestor of the guitar, the oud. Is it really the kind of all musical instruments? If so, what is the real reason?

The earliest guitar-like instruments probably had flat fretboards, but these days pretty much every guitar has a curved ’board. We’re not talking about an up-bow or back-bow, but rather the ...