For those of us who play a few times a week, changing strings every 1-3 months is a good rule of thumb. This keeps your tone ...

A guitar without strings is much less useful than one with them - though you may be able to use an acoustic model as a percussion instrument. It’s important, then, to get the best strings for ...

Whether you’re a beginner or a blues guitarist, strap your guitar with the best strings to enhance your sound and maintain quality over time The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers.

The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments, carefully stored in a climate-controlled room.

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...