
Vintage Guitar Values in 2026: A Guide
Blue-chip guitars keep climbing, mid-era guitars are the quiet value — how to read the vintage market without overpaying.
Album announcements, tour routings, festival bills and instrument launches across guitar music, with dates, prices and availability wherever known.

Blue-chip guitars keep climbing, mid-era guitars are the quiet value — how to read the vintage market without overpaying.

There is no string shortage — there is a tariff bill, and the largest US string maker has been paying it since 2025.

Forecasts say the guitar market is growing while US manufacturing shrinks — both can be true, and both affect what you pay.

Every winter the industry floods your feed with launch news — here is how to separate the gear that matters from the show-floor noise.

Martin's first Sustainability Summit in Nazareth turned tonewood supply from a footnote into boardroom policy — and it reaches players' cases.

Gibson brought an all-new 2026 range to NAMM in January while quietly shifting part of its marketing muscle to CES.