Guitar. It's all about fast licks, loud distorted amps and hoards of adoring fans, not a quiet evening in cleaning and setting up your instrument, right? Well, in reality, you can't have one without ...

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It's no secret that guitars are fickle instruments, susceptible to the elements and often prone to damage under clumsy or inexperienced hands. What happens when it's gig time and you realise to your ...

Nov 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — Ben's Guitar Repair, owned by Ben Wade, has been in Columbia for 12 years. Wade started the shop while he was a student at MU after being ...

Though the tone of a guitar won't be affected by regular maintenance, removing the accumulated gunk, giving it a good polish and paying some attention to the hardware will not only help it retain its ...

When Daniel “Booney” Carranco opened Booney Guitars in December 2012, he probably wasn’t aware that within two years he would have to expand to accommodate the volume of work he would be receiving.

Ed Snoble has been custom-building guitars and repairing guitars, banjos and other stringed instruments for the last 30 years. Oh, and he also loves a good cup of coffee. Combine the three and you’ll ...

The bustle of Hank’s Music Exchange, the instrument dealer that takes up the front half of the business on 33rd and Hawthorne, is fairly typical. While Stereolab plays over the in-house sound system, ...