New trade rules that took effect last year require documentation when shipping instruments that contain rosewood. Guitar makers have complained about long delays in getting permits to import rosewood ...

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Oregon luthier Bedell Guitars has announced the Brazillian Rosewood Collection, composed of four limited-edition acoustic guitars, individually released each quarter throughout 2019. Just eight of ...

An amendment to CITES Appendix II in January this year is resulting in the biggest forced change in guitar manufacturing ever. So what’s the big deal with rosewood? It’s perhaps the most revered of ...

What do you hear when someone strums a guitar? You might describe the sound as bright, or full, or warm. Maybe it's metallic or trebly, or maybe it's something else. All of that is, of course, pretty ...

This insight comes via David Kalt, a former options trader and broker who’s now focused on guitars and all things related. A decade after he co-founded the online broker OptionsXpress, which Schwab ...

The flat-top acoustic guitar is a finely balanced system of parts and forces, each of which has a profound knock-on effect on the others. From scale length to bracing, neck carve to bridge weight, the ...

An international crackdown on illegal logging in tropical forests has ensnared the makers of some guitars and other musical instruments, whose top-end products require small amounts of rosewood, a ...