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Reading this month’s cover feature on the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s landmark recording The Dark Side Of The Moon, I’m struck by both its roots as a live performance and its extended evolution as one. For if albums are the crystallisation of mu

Hanker after Gibson’s rarest 50s solidbodies but baulk at the price of CS reissues? Epiphone has the Goldilocks option with its new Korina V and Explorer p78 The mellow-voiced solo on The Stranglers’ most famous song was recorded with an unlikely lat

Takamine acoustics need little introduction from us as their reputation for high-quality, road-warrior six-strings is well established. After arriving on these shores in the mid-70s, the brand has gone from strength to strength, appearing on stage in

If you’re into small-number, high-end guitar craft we’re pleased to introduce you to Valenti Guitars. Based in Città di Castello in the province of Perugia, Italy, and crafted by Luigi Valenti and a small team, the company currently makes around 50 i

CONTACT Marshall Amplification PHONE 01908 375411 WEB www.marshall.com Effects Loop The Guv’nor is home to an effects loop on the back via a single socket, which is engaged whenever the pedal isn’t bypassed. Rather than modify the pedal, however, Ma

When I started out, my lust was for a Cherry Red Gibson ES-335, which I bagged aged just 22. My inspiration was clearly Clapton’s ‘Cream’ guitar. However, I’d bought a Fender first as the £105 I’d so far scrimped together burned a ’67 Telecaster-size

AUDIO http://bit.ly/guitaristextra Originally a term derived from the low notes of an organ played with a pedal, the name ‘pedal tone’ is now more commonly used to describe a static bass note played under changing chords. In fact, I’m going a bit fur

WIDE WORLD I buy Guitarist almost every month and I cannot praise it enough. I’ve been playing guitar for 44 years, mostly professionally, and I always find the magazine to be an incredible wealth of knowledge. The Jeff Beck issue was a welcome and c

One of the highlights in my lutherie calendar is the annual group guitar-making course that I run at my workshop. With a healthy mixture of excitement and trepidation I look forward to this three-week extravaganza of woodworking that sees a handful o

If you happened to be watching The Stranglers performing Golden Brown on BBC’s Top Of The Pops in the early 1980s, you may have found yourself wondering about the strange-looking guitar that singer Hugh Cornwell was holding. None more black in colour

The creeping introduction of the pounding heartbeat was lifted from the band’s contribution to the Zabriskie Point soundtrack in 1970. Fading in from a deep, resonant heartbeat, it seems to suggest a baby’s first bleary impressions of the brash, cyni

Most of us are aware of harmonic nodes. You get the strongest one at the 12th fret, which is exactly halfway along the string length. There’s one at the 5th, which is a quarter length and another at the 7th. If you place your finger lightly on a stri

As far as 12-string electric guitars go, it’s hard to beat a Rickenbacker Capri model. The Fender Electric XII is perhaps the greatest competitor in terms of playability and sound, and the Gibson EDS-1275 doubleneck also deserves an honourable mentio

VIDEO & AUDIO http://bit.ly/guitaristextra Tutor Richard BarrettGear used Fender Strat, Boss Keeley SD & Vox AC15C1Difficulty | 15 mins per example THERE IS AN OLD MUSICIAN’S ADAGE that says when improvising, you’re only ever a semitone away from th

Stepping outside of the mainstream isn’t for everyone, but if you fancy something a little different then the UK has a host of guitar makers ready to turn your dreams into a special instrument. At the end of 2022 we were chatting to Maybury Guitars’