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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese singer LiSA performed her first-ever acoustic live concert in Taiwan at the Legacy Max in Taipei on Saturday (Dec. 9). The 1,400 tickets to see her live sold out immediately, reflecting the… ...