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Alessio Monti Review --
When I first received this CD from NewMillennium, it was not my first exposure to Maestro Monti. I had, many times, read what Larry Cooperman had written and published on this site about him. Otherwise, however, I had never heard his name. This is a shame, for he is a musician with a lot to offer
Although Monti is a superb guitarist in the traditional sense, he is also armed and dangerous with a whole host of contemporary techniques ... More >>
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The Angella Americana --
Luthiers seem to be somewhat stabilized with a given set of precedents these days; I haven’t seen too much that isn’t a copy of the last generation of innovations, starting with Smallman and proceeding to Humphrey, Ruck and Dammann. Adrian Lucas rattled my senses with the iconographic looking and thunderous radial brace, Kenny Hill, as a modern Dr. Frankenstein of the guitar ...
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 The octatonic scale is a hybrid scale that differs from symmetrical scales like the chromatic, whole tone and diminished.
Symmetrical scale depend on one interval, chromatic--half step, whole tone-whole step and diminished-minor third... More >>
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There is more under the sun than ...
Ribbecke Halfling Guitar, Vox Virage, Pawar Guitar will soon be producing their legendary three-coil pickup...Oasis Humidifier now makes classical guitar strings... More >> |
The Amazon
In the late 1960s guitar makers began to see restrictions on the importation of Brazilian rosewood in The United States, Europe and Asia. This was the preferred wood for the backs and sides of both classical guitars and steel strings.
Over the years since, luthiers still search this wood out...More >>
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