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  • Powertune: Self-tuning Guitars?

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    I've heard old-school musicians bemoan the use of electronic tuners. They feel a person should train their ear to hear the pitches and tune that way. Electronic tuning devices have become a part of the fabric of playing a stringed

  • Free Sierra Hull MP3 from Gibson

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    Gibson has a page on their web site dedicated to several modern bluegrass artists who are having an impact on the music. As it happens, they all play Gibson mandolins. What a coincidence! The artists featured are The Infamous Stringdusters, Cherryholmes,

  • Win a Sam Bush mandolin

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    Gibson and Sam Bush are offering a chance to win a new Sam Bush signature model mandolin, valued at nearly $10,000. Additional prizes for the winner include 10 sets of Gibson Sam Bush mandolin strings, and an autographed copy of

  • Gibson acquires Garrison Guitars

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    Gibson has announced their acquisition this week of Garrison Guitars of St. John's Newfoundland, in Canada. Garrison was started by Chris Griffiths in 1999, using a new bracing system he had developed, and dubbed the Griffiths Active Bracing System. This system

  • Instrument Makers Saving Trees

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    The New York Times ran an article yesterday about guitar makers C.F. Martin, Taylor, Fender and Gibson joining forces with environmental activist group Greenpeace in an effort to save tree species vital to their trade. One wood the article focuses on

  • Al Roker Lends A Hand to a Nashville music school

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    This last Thursday morning weatherman Al Roker of the Today Show was in Nashville for the Lend A Hand Today program he has been involved with for the last six years. The charity benefiting was the W.O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School.

  • Dixie Bee-Liners at Gibson.com

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    The Dixie Bee-Liners have a nice feature up on Gibson's web site. It gives an overview of the band - and their story of meeting and starting a bluegrass band in New York, and then moving to Virginia - along

  • Gibson acquires vintage Epiphone collection

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    2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the Gibson Company acquiring the Epiphone brand, which they have continued to operate as a separate product line. Though it now largely consists of less expensive replicas of popular Gibson models, Epiphone was once a

  • Gibson Skaggs model mandolin video

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    We posted about the Ricky Skaggs signature Master Model F5 mandolin when it was announced at IBMA '06, and again when it first appeared on Gibson's web site. The mandolin is being officially introduced this week at the Winter NAMM show,

  • Ricky Skaggs Master Model Gibson mandolin

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    We posted back in October about several new bluegrass instruments which Gibson debuted at the IBMA trade show. At that time, we mentioned the Ricky Skaggs signature mandolin, and indicated that no further information was available on the Gibson web