I took my custom champagne-sparkle Telecaster electric guitar to a party last weekend full of local musicians. I’m used to people ogling the paint job, but this time they were ogling the back of the ...

If you play guitar, either acoustic or electric, you probably own some type of tuner. Tuners come in several varieties. There are pitch pipe type tuners that make a sound for each guitar string. Your ...

Necessary evils though they are, changing strings and tuning up have got to be two of the most boring and/or tiresome guitar-related tasks around. Band Industries offered a helping hand in November ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Best guitar tuners 2026: From tuning pedals and clip-ons, to guitar tuning apps Best acoustic ...

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Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

Back in the stone age when I was learning to play guitar, there were only two ways to tune an instrument. By pitch pipe, or by ear. I wasn’t good at either method and was always frustrated that my ...