Nine-string guitars seem to break the metalsphere. Rob Scallon knows this all too well: an original 9-string guitar composition he published in December that boasted it used all 9 strings (unlike so ...

The big news coming out of the NAMM Show this past January — “big news” insofar as the shock/awe/WTF factor — was that every major guitar company with a stake in the metal game had brand new 9-string ...

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If you have never come across a Kelstone before, it’s a 9-stringed fretted instrument which you play with both hands on top of the fretboard. If you can play the piano, you shouldn’t have many ...

Neal Schon is no stranger to showing off his incredible collection of electric guitars on his Instagram, but his latest – a nine-string Ibanez – is certainly the most surprising. As is always the case ...

When Chris Haskett, former member of Rollins Band and gun for hire by Bowie, Reeves Gabrel, Jah Wobble and more, wanted a guitar with the low strings coursed like a 12-string and the high strings left ...

The Earth is going to explode. Last night I was scrolling through my news feed and noticed djent-themed Facebook page The Djentleman's Club was posting about Meshuggah, who I'm always keeping an eye ...

Collier never learned on a six-string. Instead, he cut his teeth on a four-string tenor guitar. Then he had the audacity to ...

Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need to ...

One of guitar playing’s simplest joys comes in ringing out a big, open chord and letting the guitar’s strings and tonewoods work their magic. Now imagine that joy, doubled. The best 12-string guitars ...