In the mid-1960s, George met sitar legend Ravi Shankar and immediately began receiving lessons from him. Indian music took hold of George so much that he left his guitar behind. However, George ...

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Although Summer NAMM 2011 didn't see a deluge of exciting new guitar products, there were a few surprises. At the very top of our 'must-try' list is the latest stompbox treading the fine line between ...

Chicagoan Fareed Haque has played classical and jazz guitar with members of the Vermeer Quartet and prominent artists such as Sting, Kurt Elling and Ramsey Lewis. His bicultural Pakistani and Chilean ...

'I come from a family of inventors,' says the St. Louis-based artist. 'In my household growing up, there was always this freedom to go your own way, so I thought, Why not build an instrument? Why not ...

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£599 is certainly not a bargain price, but with the vintage market pricing Corals well into four figures, the DBS68 represents good value. Getting the bridge height right is a chore. MusicRadar's got ...

Puducherry-born and bred musician Soham Munim has spent most of his boyhood years practising classical music on the sitar. Puducherry: Puducherry-born and bred musician Soham Munim has spent most of ...

Back story: Life is all sitars and guitars for local musician Pete Fine. When the New York City-born musician isn't working at Rainbow Guitars, he is jamming at various North Fourth Avenue venues with ...

It was one of a kind of concert. Definitely for the majority of us it was the first time that we’d seen a sitar being played like a guitar while the guitarist and the sitarist head banged on the stage ...