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“Bring guitars, fiddles, mandolins, and other instruments,” a party invitation reads. “Even bring banjos (if you must).” Once again, the banjo finds itself on the butt end of a joke. But it would be a mistake for guitarists to dismiss ...

This is why we run this column—so guitarists like Mike Pursley of Greensboro, Maryland, can remind GP readers that clichés are meant to be annihilated. For instance, there is a whole generation of players out there who avoid two-handed ...

Aside from the human voice and the drum, the world’s favorite musical instrument is the guitar, and few things remind us of that fact more than the return addresses on submissions for this column. GP receives entries from all over the ...

“It turns out we can learn a thing or two from that guy at the back of the stage with the huge four-string guitar,” points out Dan Morris, a PhD student in Computer Science at California’s Stanford University. “Bassists often use plucking-hand ...

Take it from Mike Barna of North Olmsted, Ohio: When you’re composing, the muse can appear in many different forms—including, as Barna found out, as objects as inanimate and abstract as the calendar on the wall. “It was Friday the 13th ...