Musicwood: The Acoustic Guitar Wood Documentary

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Published June 5, 2010 at 12:15 p.m.

It all starts with the wood.We have written before about the risk to the ongoing manufacture of guitars if the tonewoods used to make guitars are not in some way preserved.  We have also been impressed by guitar manufacturers’ efforts to use “sustainable wood” in the manufacture of guitars – like the Martin SWOMGT and [ ... ] ...

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Interview: Jazz Guitarist Martin Taylor

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Published May 24, 2010 at 3:08 p.m.

British guitarist Martin Taylor is a highly respected jazz guitar player who recently opened up his own online guitar academy in conjunction with ArtistWorks.  Martin grew up in a musical family and received a huge break when he took over the guitar seat former held by Django Reinhardt, playing with famed French violinist Stephane Grappelli.We [ ... ] ...

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Review: Martin Taylor Guitar Academy

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Published May 6, 2010 at 3:56 p.m.

ArtistWorks, based in California’s Napa wine country, is taking online lessons to a whole new level, combining some of what’s best in the online lesson format with a personal interaction between student and teacher.  Fretbase was given exclusive access to the Martin Taylor Guitar Academy where students can get one-on-one interaction with Martin [ ... ] ...

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Coldplay’s Chris Martin Teaches Wife Gwyneth Paltrow to Play Guitar

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Published May 5, 2010 at 6:16 p.m.

When it comes to playing guitar, I’ll do whatever it takes to learn.  I have taken private lessons.  I have used DVD’s.  I have asked for tips from players on YouTube.  I regularly look for new content on Fretbase’s song pages.  And I have bought many, many books with good lessons.  So you can imagine [ ... ] ...

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Martin Taylor Guitar Academy’s Record Breaking Opening Week

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Published April 28, 2010 at 5:36 p.m.
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Last week I revealed a new online Guitar Academy by Jazz Guitar legend Martin Taylor, well since its launch the site has seen people from 13 countries sign up for lessons ... The Martin Taylor Guitar Academy online has greatly exceeded opening week projections. With enrollment numbers more than double the opening day response of any other prior ArtistWorks launch, the demand for ArtistWorks’ groundbreaking online video-exchange platform is once again reaffirmed ... People were lined up at the

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Guardian Introduces Value Hardshell Cases

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Published April 20, 2010 at 12:16 a.m.

I was at Schoenberg’s shop in Tiburon recently and an attractive woman came in with a vintage Martin guitar circa 1960.  She explained that it is the favorite guitar for the many guitar players in her house.  But then she showed some horrible scratches on the back of the guitar.“How did that happen?” she was [ ... ] ...

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Johnny Cash and His Martin Dreadnought Still Coming Out With New Material

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Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 12:57 a.m.

We are unabashed fans of Johnny Cash’s American Recordings.  The five albums that Johnny Cash recorded with Rick Rubin (and the 5 disc boxed set created in addition to that material) are considered by many to be the best recordings of Cash’s career.  While the albums had some original material, it was Cash’s covers of [ ... ] ...

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New All Mahogany Martin 000-15S Available For Pre-Order From My Favorite Guitars

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Published Feb. 11, 2010 at 8:19 p.m.

Like a lot of people, we were pretty disappointed last year when Martin Guitar stopped manufacturing the Martin 000-15s as a standard model.  The all-mahogany (or sometimes sapele) slothead was a beauty that harkens back to an earlier time.  Sure, we weren’t crazy about the tuning pegs or the decal rosette but for an all-mahogany [ ... ] ...

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Martin Guitar Releases 13 New Guitars at Winter NAMM Show

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Published Jan. 19, 2010 at 12:48 a.m.

Sometimes something old seems like something new.  At the Winter NAMM Show last week, Martin Guitar announced the release of 13 new guitars this winter.  This year, we’d say the company had two primary areas of focus.  The first is electrics.  Even though Martin is known for their acoustic guitars, 8 out of the 13 [ ... ] ...

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Martin Guitar Releases the Martin M-30 Jorma Kaukonen: Perfect for Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues

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Published Dec. 15, 2009 at 11:24 p.m.

Often when a new guitar comes along we look at the specs and think, “That guitar looks pretty good, but we sure wish it had x.”  (In case you haven’t noticed, we can be perfectionists about guitars here at Fretbase.)  Not so with the Martin M-30 Jorma Kaukonen - and before this guitar came along [ ... ] ...

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