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• Martin's History of Flight' custom inlaid guitar

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:49 am

  Tags: Musical Instruments, C F Martin And Co, History Of Flight, Guitars, Larry Robinson, Rosewood

  Investing in art is a trend that has crossed the monarchy of paintings long back. People love to spend on sculptures, historical abodes, and even musical instruments. If you are looking for some finest quality music instrument, C.F. Martin & Co. has produced a unique guitar dubbed “History of Flight” honoring the legacy of air and

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• Guitar Hero: Fully Functional LEGO Guitar Hero Controller Shreds Other Plastic Guitars

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Controllers, Gadgets, Guitar Hero, Guitars, Lego, Peripherals, Videogames

  This Gibson Explorer-modeled, fully functional LEGO Guitar Hero controller is definitely one of the better DIY video game peripherals we've seen—it's exponentially more attractive than the last homemade GH controller we saw, anyway. How does it work? The maker loses a bit of DIY cred by dumping the guts from a real GH controller into the

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• Ax Contrarian: Gibson Pops a 180 with Awesome Reverse Flying V Limited Edition Guitar

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Ax Contrarian, Gibson, Gibson Reverse Flying V, Guitar Of The Week Series, Guitars, Musical Instruments

  Attention guitar players: Gibson just turned the guitar world upside down with its Reverse Flying V electric guitar, installment number 29 in the company's Guitar of the Week series. It'll be built in a limited edition of just 400 instruments. Even though purists who still worship the classic 1958 design might be soon calling this the Perverse

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• Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitars Video and Lyrics

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: Music Videos, Girls, Guitars, Lyrics, Maximo, Park, Video

  Girls Who Play Guitars by Maximo Park - Music Video and Lyrics Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitars, Lyrics You’ve been with me a year to the day Three hundred and sixty five days watching me decay We used to talk about girls who play guitars We used to talk about plans in tiny bars Girls, Guitars, Lyrics, Maximo, Park, [...]

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• Two New Autism Books

  Published: October 2, 2007, 2:22 am

  Tags: Autism Lit, Adulthood, Movies, Books, Treatment, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autism Lit, Biomedical, Candida, Children, Education, Family, Guitars, Healing, Health, Jenny Mccarthy, Kiss, Memoir, Pdd Nos, Savants, Yeast

  teenage years and creating guitars for KISS; similar accounts are those by Daniel Tammet in Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger’s and an Extraordinary Mind and, too Temple Grandin’s books, Emergence: Labeled Autistic and Thinking in Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. They are all books about

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• Guitars: Gibson Powertune Automagically Tunes Up Guitars, Tin-Eared Guitarists Rejoice

  Published: October 2, 2007, 11:15 am

  Tags: Gadgets, Gibson, Gibson Powertune, Guitars, Musical Instruments

  used on most electric guitars, and these pickups are able to isolate the sound of each individual string. Underneath the pickups is a processor that senses the pitch being played, and sends a signal to the tuning pegs at the top of the guitar's neck to change the pitch until it's all tuned up. Even though this machine may be perfectly

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• Video Hands-On with the New Guitar Hero III Controllers

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Games, Clips, Controllers, Games, Guitars

  Curious about the new Guitar Hero III controllers? Well, MTVs Multiplayer blog did this great video walkthrough of both the PS3 Xbox 360 and Wii versions, showing how the necks detach and how the Wiimote actually gets hooked directly into the body of the guitar. It even shows how dorky you look when you're playing, which is nice to be reminded

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• Air Guitar Gadgets Aren't as Cool as Real Guitars, Somehow

  Published: October 17, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Clips, Gadgets, Guitars, Music, Toys

  In Den Den Town in Osaka, Bashcraft and I found a table with a bunch of air guitar gadgets at the front of an electronics store. What are air guitar gadgets, you ask? They're stupid little devices that make noise when you pretend to play guitar, making you look like a total jackass. Or me look like a total jackass, specifically. Ah well. I was

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• Guitar Captured with Enough Coke Stashed to Take Us All to Electric Ladyland

  Published: October 26, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: Random Stuff, Drugs, Guitars, Stratocaster

  What on earth would make this Stratocaster clone worth well over a million dollars? As you can see in the pic above, the electric guitar was stuffed with lots of cocaine, that's what. We former musicians are well aware that the gigsters always have the best blow, but this guitar player went overboard when he decided to fly from Costa Rica to Rome

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• Nanci’s Naughties has expanded their music product line

  Published: November 1, 2007, 6:13 pm

  Tags: Secondlife, Guitars, Music, Nanci S Naughties

  After thinking about it for a few months, I have decided to add a vendor to Nanci’s Naughties for one of the best musical instrument makers in SecondLife. (more…)

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• My guitar - Epiphone 58 Korina Flying V

  Published: October 6, 2007, 9:58 am

  Tags: Guitars

  In this post I present you my Guitar. It is Epiphone 58 Korina Flying V, based on the ‘58 Korina V by Gibson. More Details: Guitar has 2 Humbucker pickups, 1.68″ nut width, gold hardware, set neck joint and: - Korina wood body - 24-3/4″ scale neck - Rosewood fingerboard - Two humbuckers - Three-way switching It looks and sounds

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• Pac-Man Electric Guitar For Retro Game Loving Rockers

  Published: November 6, 2007, 10:20 pm

  Tags: Games, Games, Guitars, Music, Pac Man, Retro

  Designed by Specimen Custom Guitars, the Pac-Man guitar features a blinking headstock and a variable-speed knob located on the eyeball that can synchronise the blinker to the beat. Unfortunately, the guitar is one-of-a-kind so chances are you won't be able to play one yourself—which is a shame because I would love to hear how this thing

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• Gibson Intros "World's First Robotic Guitar": Tuning May Be a Thing of the Past

  Published: November 12, 2007, 5:40 pm

  Tags: Robots, Gibson, Guitars, Robots

  We posted a video of the Robot Guitar in action early last month, but now we have some sexy pics and some release date info for guitarists the world over to get excited about. In case you haven't heard, the Robot Guitar can tune itself with a simple push of a button. Servos in the headstock can tune the guitar to one of seven presets; with

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• Tiny Electric Guitar Has Normal-Sized Frets [World's Smallest]

  Published: November 16, 2007, 11:15 am

  Tags: Guitars, Musical Instruments, Tiny Ax, World S Smallest

  Behold the smallest electric guitar in the world. Well, it's called the "smallest precision electric guitar available," because even though overall it's just 1/6 the size of a normal instrument, its fretboard is the same size as an ordinary guitar. This is not a toy; it has a couple of pickups that can give you your choice of humbucking or single

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• Tiny Electric Guitar Has Normal-Sized Frets

  Published: November 16, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: Random Stuff, Design, Electric, Guitars, Instruments

  Behold the smallest electric guitar in the world. Well, it's called the "smallest precision electric guitar available," because even though overall it's just 1/6 the size of a normal instrument, its fretboard is the same size as an ordinary guitar. This is not a toy; it has a couple of pickups that can give you your choice of humbucking or single

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