The Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and early '30s was a pivotal era that helped shape the modern steel-string acoustic guitar. Now Martin Guitar pays tribute to that time with the O’ahu HG-28 ...

You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before ... to put a detuning mechanism for individual strings in normal electric guitars, but these are somewhat rare and weird.

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Classical guitars opt for softer nylon strings, while acoustic guitars use steel strings. Nylon strings have considerably less tension than that of their metal counterpart and produce a mellower ...