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Brian May: The Red Special, From Scratch
A homemade guitar built from a fireplace by a father and son in 1960s London carried one of the biggest rock bands in history — and the design decisions still hold lessons.
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Guitarists and string players profiled through what they actually do: right-hand attack, tunings, gear choices, and the sound they became known for.
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St. Vincent: Designing a Guitar of Her Own
Annie Clark built an art-rock catalog on disciplined, effects-aware playing — then sat down with a manufacturer and specified a signature guitar built around her own ergonomics.
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Chet Atkins: How One Thumb Built Nashville
A self-taught Tennessean with a thumb pick and a producer's ear shaped both the sound of country guitar and the records that carried it.
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Julio Sagreras: Primer That Still Teaches
An Argentine guitarist whose hundred-year-old lesson books still sit on music stands — the rare method that outlived its author by shaping how beginners meet the instrument.
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Segovia: The Man Who Won the Concert Hall
Andrés Segovia spent seven decades turning the classical guitar from a salon instrument into one the world's major stages took seriously — and almost every classical player today works in his shadow.
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Elizabeth Cotten: Playing It Upside Down
A self-taught left-hander who never retrained her hands gave guitar one of its most original techniques and a folk standard written before she was a teenager.