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Not many Minnesota musicians have performed in Japan. Dakota Dave Hull might be the first based in the Land of 10,000 Bands to record a live album in Japan. The distinguished guitar picker from ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kazuo Yairi was a Japanese classical guitar luthier whose fixation with acoustic sound drove him to make beautiful, resonant guitars ...

Takamine had a mountain to climb when it set out to challenge the dominance of American acoustic makers in the 1960s - but the Japanese company soon became master of the electro-acoustic format, ...

Kazuo Yairi, who has died aged 81, was a Japanese classical guitar luthier whose fixation with acoustic sound drove him to make beautiful, resonant guitars favoured by musical such greats as Sir Paul ...

The hand-aged Gibson Les Paul Special is a replica of the 1960 original, but an American master craftsman made it exactly the way the guitar would look today, complete with aging cracked paint and ...

A classical isn't just some variant of a regular acoustic guitar, it's very much its own instrument, with a unique feel, sound, and required playing style. Whether you're new to classical, or you're ...