Playing the charango

The charango is a small, rounded back guitar like instrument popular in the music of Peruvian Andes region. Kate Hathaway explains it all in the video below. Ms Hathaway forms half of a brother sister duo (the other half being James). You can learn more about this enterprising duo at their website and blog. They [...]

Cold Play VS guitarist Joe Satriani

Probably nothing in the world, whether in music or literature or even science, is truly original anymore. With so much music and written language concoctions floating about everything creative probably contains something of  one or more of the others. Sometimes it’s coincidence; sometimes deliberate. The plagiarism aspect of a complaint can only be maintained if [...]

Electric guitar VS fish

Can a guitar be played so loud it makes fish jump? Er, yes, yes it can. The proof, of course, is in the police report–but did anyone actually see the fish jump?
“A man made so much noise in his Colonial Drive apartment that he made his downstairs neighbor’s fish leap, the neighbor told sheriff’s deputies. [...]

Heavy Metal guitarists from Iraq

“Acrassicauda had been through hell as a rock band in wartime Baghdad. Its practice space was bombed. Its members were branded Satan worshipers and received death threats for making Western-style music. Then they suffered through two purgatorial years as refugees in Syria and Turkey, killing time and dreaming of rocking out in the land of [...]

Is this REALLY awesome guitar playing?

Supposedly this is “awesome guitar playing.” To each his own I guess.

Vancouver’s Fear Zero guitarist playing Octane

Stradivarius

We’ve always heard that the Stradivarius had the finest sound of any wood instrument. Perhaps it does, but why? Is it the age of the wood? The wood itself? The construction procedure? Well it turns out, at least to scientists who have studied this phenomenon for years, the superior tone is  actually due to a [...]