Most readers know that Tommy Emmanuel’s mentor Chet Atkins dubbed him a “C.G.P.” meaning Certified Guitar Player, but Certified Guitar Performer is also appropriate given the dazzling display he puts ...
The term "best-kept-secret" is one that has been applied to guitarist Tommy Emmanuel for years. But lately that's changing: His jaw-dropping acoustic prowess, one which prompted his idol and mentor, ...
Australian manufacturing may be on a low note but a small guitar maker in Melbourne is not only surviving but thriving. Despite facing a high dollar and problems with its biggest domestic retail ...
All that work has allowed Hanna to build a comfortable life for his wife and their two sons, and inside the home he built for his family is a room that looks much smaller than it actually is, for ...
THIEVES are on the run with two $20,000 guitars, one signed by Billy Thorpe and Normie Rowe, after they broke into a Box Hill South music museum. Police are hunting for thieves who raided the music ...
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Guitar maker Maton is enjoying enough of a sales boom that it needs three more staff at its Melbourne factory – but can't find ...
George Harrison's Maton Mastersound guitar has sold for £300,000 at auction in New York. The Australian-made guitar was used for gigs by The Beatles in July and August 1963, when Harrison's favoured ...