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What Is a Luthier? The Craft Behind a Well-Set-Up Guitar
The word covers everyone from Stradivari's heirs to the person who fixes your buzzing nut. Here is what the trade actually does, and when you should hand over your guitar.

The word covers everyone from Stradivari's heirs to the person who fixes your buzzing nut. Here is what the trade actually does, and when you should hand over your guitar.

Lower one string a whole step and you get a deeper low end, one-finger power chords, and a droning open sound that rock and folk players keep coming back to.

Two string families built for two different instruments, two different right hands, and two very different sounds.