Whenever Christian F. Martin IV hears a Martin guitar, whether it’s the timeworn piece Willie Nelson’s nearly strummed a hole ...

Guild guitars were first founded in New York City back in 1952, but at that time, the guitar company was focused on Jazz guitars. Through the decades, many big-name artists have played Guild ...

Since the seventies, New Yorker Rick Kelly has been making guitars from the “bones of old New York.” Handmade guitars on display at Carmine Street Guitars in the West Village were crafted from wood ...

One of the guitar world’s most visionary makers, who took the archtop guitar to unimaginable levels and also created the ...

In 2007, Jayson Dobney, an Iowan with a master’s degree in the history of musical instruments, from the University of South Dakota, moved to New York to be a curator in the department of musical ...