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Read some issues from the archives. Just click on an issue below.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No. 1  

Tips on flying with your guitar, links to on-line guitar galleries, bass jokes, and more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No. 2  

Tips on humidifying your instrument, links to guitar instruction sites, some additional bass jokes, and more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No. 3  

Guitar myths debunked, links to cool Web radio sites, and more. This time the joke's on the drummer.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No. 4  

A few more guitar myths debunked, links to great Web sites for kids and music, and more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.5  

News about the upcoming Vintage Guitars book, a gig-from-hell story, yet more guitar myths debunked, and more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.6  

Shocking news about pickguards, a great story about some red-hot guitar playing, and some vital news about Spinal Tap, the Fab Four, and more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.7  

News about Dylan and R.E.M. and Gillian Welch, more guitar myths about straps, strings, and air pressure, a great gig story, and more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.8  

Great websites for lutherie, more gigs from hell, and the conclusion of our guitar myths feature. This issue includes the inside scoop on vintage guitars, old wood, and factory-made axes.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.9  

Great information about an exciting new instruction book, useful links to online alternate tuning information, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.10  

An interview with Jewel, The Complete Acoustic Guitar Method Series, A New History of the Lute, Guitar Talk gatherings, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.11  

Guitars and humidity, home recording, a lesson on barre chords, ear training on the Web, a lesson on jazz chord basics, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.12  

Chris Isaak and Vicente Amigo in AG; news about recordings by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton and Janis Ian; discovering your own alternate tunings, and more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.13  

Great information about setting up an open mic, music history on the Web, a new lesson on D A D G A D tuning, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.14  

String guages and tension, live music on the Web, a new lesson on Simple Syncopated Grooves, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.15  

The value of your guitar, jazz guitar on the Web, the Complete Acoustic Guitar Method, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.16  

Vintage guitars, H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers) on the Web, Rick Ruskin's arrangement of "We Three Kings," and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.17  

The 2003 Homegrown CD Awards, a slack key website, Acoustic Guitar's Complete Method book, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.18  

Classical connections on the Web, spring festivals, tips on travelling with your guitar, a lesson on hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slieds, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.19  

Building your own guitar, Joni Mitchell and Merlefest DVDs, a lesson on breaking out of fingerpicking patterns, a new book on Fiddle Tunes and Folk Songs, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.20  

Summer camps, a lesson on chord names, practicing tips, the Acoustic Guitar Cruise, a book on Children's Songs for Beginning Guitar, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.21  

Selling your CD online, strumming arrows in notation and tablature, a new chord book from Acoustic Guitar, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.22  

Classical sheet music on the Web, a bossa nova lesson, a new book on singer-songwriters, a new German book on gear, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.23  

The Acoustic Guitar Online Store, temporary pickguards, a fingerpicking lesson with "House of the Rising Sun," and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.24  

Acoustic Guitar's holiday wish list, Little Kids Rock, a lesson with a favorite holiday song to play, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.25  

The return of the Acoustic Guitar Cruise, an Irish accompaniment lesson, bridge pins, folk music on the web, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.26  

Acoustic Guitar's summer study guide, Julian Bream on DVD, toroiseshell picks, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.27  

Maintenance and repair on the web, alternate tunings and string breakage, mix CD cafes, and lots more.

 

Acoustic Guitar Wire No.28  

Win passage on the Acoustic Guitar Cruise, the summer gear showcase, a new slack key lesson online, and more.

 

 


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