by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Nov 7, 2017 | News Articles
A California auction house reported a guitar that was used by music icon Prince in the late 1980s and into the 1990s has been sold for $700,000. This marks the highest amount paid for any one of his personal guitars. Julien’s Live auction house, based in Los...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Nov 4, 2017 | News Articles
The lever-like guitar accessory known as a “whammy” bar is best used to bend and distort a single note, i.e. Jimi Hendrix’s famous rendition of the Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock 1969. But it doesn’t sound very nice if used when playing...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Nov 2, 2017 | News Articles
Hotel enthusiasts and musicians alike smashed guitars in Hollywood, Florida to celebrate a construction milestone at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, a $1.5 billion entertainment complex featuring a mega guitar–shaped hotel. The 450-foot-tall hotel will...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Oct 23, 2017 | News Articles
Gibson plans to move from its longtime guitar-making factory in Downtown Memphis…..to a state-of-the art facility “nearby.” The Nashville-based company announced Friday that its Memphis-based guitar manufacturing division with about 85 employees will...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Oct 19, 2017 | News Articles
Internet guitar guy Jared Dines recently commissioned a guitar from Olson Guitarworks. This guitar, though, was not — by any stretch — your typical custom job. It turns out that Dines requested a single-neck, 17-string guitar!!! Even more amazingly, Olson Guitarworks...
by vintageguitarencyclopedia | Oct 17, 2017 | News Articles
At a youthful 37 years old, Stephen Gallagher is a vintage throwback. As the owner of the tiny Gallagher Guitar Company, he sees himself strictly as an artist than an aspiring business magnate. While some guitar manufacturers pump out dozens of instruments every...
