In the September 2006 issue of the British Medical Journal, G.P. David Connell speculates about the unnaturally long fingers of bluesman Robert Johnson .

The modest ukulele is enjoying a surge in popularity in the UK, according to the BBC. The uke, seen as a comedy instrument for so long, is ready to be taken seriously.

Matt Reynolds the owner of the Duke of Uke, the UK's only specialist ukulele shop, said:

Nineteen year old Swansea guitarist Daniel Robert Angelo should have expected the unusual when he applied for a job as a guitarist in the Circus of Horrors. He later found out that part of the job required him to play upside down while rolling around in a giant wheel.

Do you enjoy tuning and packing guitars? I just saw this job advert for basic guitar tester / warehouse workers. From the address I am guessing it is Ibanez (Bensalem, PA, 19020, USA). They used to print this address on their neck plates.

Although Leo Fender was the first to mass produce the electric bass guitar in the 1950s, Seattle musician Paul Tutmarc could be considered its true inventor.

H. Homer Simpson filed this patent for an adjustable guitar bridge and neck attachment system in 1935. Homer designed the neck joint to have a minimal amount of contact between neck and body, as he thought this would increase the tonal value of the instrument and increase the overall volume.

After more than two months research and development, Acme Musical Instrument Company have released three new Guitar EQs:

The F- 5T: is  a new equalizer with LCD tuner specially designed for roundback guitars. The E - 2T & E- 4T: are both mini equalizer with LCD tuners.

To meet the demands of acoustic guitar enthusiasts, ACME recently released two tunes for acoustic guitar: the AM-T95 & AM-T98.

Early in June 2009, Acme Musical Instrument Company released a new tuner AM-T30 to widespread attention.

  

The AM T30 has novel design, guitar and bass tuning modes, three color options: black, argent and ivory.

British guitar string maker Rotosound has launched a range of polymer coated electric and acoustic guitar strings. Rotosound's microscopic coating process adds a flexible, protective, black or clear coating to the new Nexus range of strings. The special black polymer coating helps prevent contamination and corrosion, extending the life of the strings.

The London Guitar show is back at the  ExCeL Exhibition Centre, London Docklands June 11^th to 14^th 2009. The lineup is:

Saturday 13^th June

10 am Guitar Idol final

12.45 Jan Akkerman

A collection of twelve rare early British-made electric guitars has been found in a Cheltenham basement of a house. The Supersound guitars were made by during a short partnership between Jim Burns and Alan Wootton from 1958 and 1959.

The collection includes both single and double cutaway solid body electric guitars and basses with Gibson influenced necks and headstock shapes.

Paul Rubenstein has suceeded in making a passive hexaphonic pickup that fits into a single coil space. Paul is a guitar player and teacher as well as an inventor (of the alumitar for example). These pickups have a separate coil for each string, allowing you to process each one indidivually.

Tradtitonally the unique selling point of Orange amps has been their bright orange finish. But this unusual styling, setting them apart from other amplifiers of the 1970s, is not to the taste of some guitarists.

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