My first acoustic guitar was an Olympia OD-3. They are fairly inexpensive guitars. Solid spruce top, laminated mahogany back and sides. Mine has alway...

When I learned barre chords it took a long time to get them sounding right. I had to experiment with my finger position a little to avoid the knuckle ...

I am into my second year of guitar, and the twelfth year with my wife. She too jokes that it must be part of a midlife crisis. But then I point out ho...

I know there is such a thing as electrical contact cleaner, but I have never used it. You might try Radio Shack or another electronics store. I did us...

One thing to keep in mind:Some of the small travel guitars that I have looked at in the past were incapable of maintaining standard tuning. This cause...

Not too long ago I saw an episode of a cable show called Myth Busters. I can't remember what channel it was on, maybe the Discovery Channel. On this s...

I once read that Eddie Van Halen boiled his strings to change the tone. It supposedly took the brightness out of new strings and gave him more of a â€...

Just my experience:When I started I found I preferred lighter/ thinner picks. For me it was just easier to strum with them in the beginning. As time w...

I would have to recommend Plane Talk. Check out Nick's review here;

bigroadblues.com has some information harmonica to get you started.

Thank you Nils and forrok_star, for your suggestions. After playing with it for a while I thought I just had a bad switch. Before I attempted to repla...

Tuning is like voting - do it early, do it often. Are you sure your in Texas, and not Chicago?

There's no perfect age, no perfect equipment, no magic. There's just you. You may try and succeed, you may try and fail; if you don't try - well, the ...

If your interested, below is a link to a review of emedia done by Greybeard.