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Yamaha SG 2000 - Japan's First Megastar Guitar

Yamaha SG 2000 - Japan's First Megastar Guitar
“ Fabulously well made ”... “ Always a joy to play ”... “ A sound and sustain more like that from a Les Paul than almost any other Japanes...

Early 1980s Mini Keyboards: Kitsch Cool or Junk?

Early 1980s Mini Keyboards: Kitsch Cool or Junk?
It was pretty grim being an aspiring keyboard player before the mid ‘eighties. Whilst your guitar playing mates could get an electric guitar...

The Classic Yamaha DX Synths: A 1980s Revolution

The Classic Yamaha DX Synths: A 1980s Revolution
In the history of popular music, there’s never really been anything else like FM. Frequency Modulation , brought to the mass market by Ya...

The Yamaha CS1x Control Synth of 1996

The Yamaha CS1x Control Synth of 1996
Yamaha defined digital synthesis with products like the DX7 , so the brand was always going to be a big player in the world of electronic ke...

1982 Yamaha A55 Electone Home Organ

1982 Yamaha A55 Electone Home Organ
What did people do before they had computers? Well, thirty years ago, quite a few of them bought home organs. In this piece I’m going to loo...

The Original Yamaha DX7

The Original Yamaha DX7
There can be very few musicians who don’t instantly think of a particular sound, or even a particular track, when someone mentions the Ya...
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1980s Guitarist Magazines Malmsteen? Sickened by Vinnie Moore? Surely not?... Let's re-live the full, gossip-filled story of the UK guitar press, circa 1980s and 1990s. Nostalgia galore in The Rise of the British Guitar Magazine... Read article...

The Vintage Reissue Story

Vintage Reissue A trip back through time to discover how the vintage guitar market started, and when the vintage reissue concept was born... Read article...

Guitar Pickup Calibration

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The Birth of the Relic

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Hidden Secret of the Fender Esquire

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Get Great Tone With Poor Pickups

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Confusing History of Olympic White

Olympic White guitars Was Olympic White actually white, or cream? And what was "Vintage White"?... Here's an end to the confusion... Read article...

The Classic '80s Yamaha DX Synths

Vintage Reissue They put session musicians out of business, from bassists to harmonica players. Here's the story of the synths that changed the way music was made.. Read article...

Telecasters of the Late 1960s

Paisley Telecaster Fender didn't anticipate the 'Hendrix Effect', and opted to make the late 1960s all about the Telecaster. Here's how they pumped their innovation budget into the Tele, only to discover the world wanted Strats after all... Read article...

Free Tonewheel Organ VSTi

The Seductress tonewheel organ VSTi Direct download for this classic tonewheel organ simulator with built-in dual-spin rotor and twin-manual drawbar control - all splittable across a single input keyboard... Download page...

Stratocasters in the 1970s

1970s Stratocaster Firemist Gold Were 1970s Fender Strats good, bad or ugly? Here's an article that separates the truths from the myths... Read article...