Vintage Guitar
Encyclopedia
Vintage Guitar is a guitar
magazine
, published monthly since 1986. Writers for the magazine include Seymour W. Duncan
, George Gruhn
, and Wolf Marshall. The content of the magazine focuses on new and vintage
acoustic
and electric guitars
(including bass guitar
s), amplifiers, and Guitar effects.
The magazine publishes an annual price guide book that details the current market values of thousands of collectible instruments. Regular features are expert technical articles, new music reviews, new gear reviews, and celebrity instrument collections.
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
, published monthly since 1986. Writers for the magazine include Seymour W. Duncan
Seymour W. Duncan
Seymour W. Duncan is a guitarist and guitar repairman, but is best known as the man behind Seymour Duncan Company, the manufacturer of guitar pickups, bass pickups, and effects pedals located in Santa Barbara, California. Born in New Jersey, Seymour grew up in the fifties and sixties, during a time...
, George Gruhn
George Gruhn
George Gruhn is a writer and businessman. He is an expert on vintage American guitars and related instruments. He opened Gruhn Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1970 and has sold guitars to musicians such as Eric Clapton, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Billy Gibbons, Rick Nielsen, John Hiatt, and...
, and Wolf Marshall. The content of the magazine focuses on new and vintage
Vintage guitar
A Vintage guitar is an old guitar usually sought after and maintained by avid collectors. Musicians and dealers commonly claim that older guitars have superior craftsmanship to modern mass-produced ones....
acoustic
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
and electric guitars
Electric Guitars
Electric Guitars were formed early in 1980 by Neil Davenport and Richard Hall who were both studying English at Bristol University. The band soon increased to a five-man line-up, with Andy Saunders , Matt Salt and Dick Truscott , they also later added two backing singers: Sara and Wendy...
(including bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
s), amplifiers, and Guitar effects.
The magazine publishes an annual price guide book that details the current market values of thousands of collectible instruments. Regular features are expert technical articles, new music reviews, new gear reviews, and celebrity instrument collections.