If you stay with the acoustic, then you'll be set - and if you move to the electric, everything will feel that bit easier. If you're looking for versatility, then the electric guitar is the one to ...

Hayward tends to favour dreadnought style guitars when playing acoustic and has used a Martin D-28 extensively. He recently favours a Texas-built Collings D3.

An acoustic version of the guitars bearing Trump’s signature are being sold on the site for $10,250, while non-autographed instruments run $1,500.

The hybrid acoustic-electric guitar line from Fender grows to become more than an experiment.

Gibson Brands, the guitar manufacturer, is threatening legal action against the company behind Trump Guitars over alleged trademark infringement.

Riley said instead of investing in an electric guitar as a kid, he made his acoustic guitar into an electric guitar using parts of a vinyl player. “It was expensive and I was only a kid,” he said.

The innovation was a success amongst Hawaiian guitar players, but acoustic players weren’t quick to adopt the idea of an electric guitar initially.

Strum GS-2 is designed for non-guitar players who want to create convincing six-string parts in their DAWs. Said to be completely redesigned, it offers a chord recognition and voicing module that ...