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 ...
C.F. Martin & Co. had a problem: More than $1 million worth of guitars the Upper Nazareth Township manufacturer planned to send overseas weren’t going anywhere. Instead, the merchandise was sitting in ...
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Rosewood or mahogany: does it make a difference? How your acoustic’s back and sides affect your guitar tone
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 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 ...
Gibson has a new player in its rich line of acoustic guitars, with the Gibson Parlor Rosewood EC designed to be a compact cutaway with “a surprising richness and warmth for its size.” The instrument, ...
Trade rules have cracked down on rosewood smuggling. But could they take guitar makers down with it?
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — 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 ...
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 ...
On 2 January 2017, a new CITES law came into force, putting restrictions on how rosewood is traded across international borders, a move that had vast implications for low-cost guitar building - ...
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 ...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra cellist Dan Katz has two cellos. The better one — the one he prefers to play with the orchestra — is 200 years old and has rosewood tuning pegs. When the orchestra went on ...
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… By ...
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 ...
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