guitar | The Guitar https://the-guitar.com Devoted to all things guitar Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:55:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://the-guitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cropped-jetpackiconnew1-54ac28ebv1_site_icon-32x32.png guitar | The Guitar https://the-guitar.com 32 32 A 5th String Subbing Cicada https://the-guitar.com/5th-string-subbing-cicada/ Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:16:13 +0000 http://the-guitar.com/?p=2776 I am looking forward to the moment when cicada season passes so I can hear myself think again. The tree outside my front terrace thrums loudly like a giant, shaking maraca with these screeching bugs ... Read more...

The post A 5th String Subbing Cicada first appeared on The Guitar.]]> Old Postcards from Madrid https://the-guitar.com/madrid/ Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:19:16 +0000 http://the-guitar.com/?p=1871 Old Postcards from Madrid One thing I could not get right in Madrid last year was timing.  The city shuts down between 2 PM to 5 PM for siesta.  The ensuing photographs document the places ... Read more...

The post Old Postcards from Madrid first appeared on The Guitar.]]> Egberto Gismonti’s Concert at Symphony Space https://the-guitar.com/egberto-gismontis-concert-at-symphony-space/ Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:30:20 +0000 http://gtrblg.com/?p=1349 Egberto Gismonti’s Concert at Symphony Space Egberto Gismonti returned to New York on September 12, 2014 after a 10-year hiatus to perform to an enthusiastic audience at the Peter Norton Theatre at Symphony Space. The ... Read more...

The post Egberto Gismonti’s Concert at Symphony Space first appeared on The Guitar.]]> A Nobel Prize Winning Guitarist https://the-guitar.com/a-nobel-prize-winning-guitarist/ Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:17:12 +0000 http://gtrblg.com/?p=1332 On the day the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced in 2008, Dr. Martin Chalfie slept through the official phone call from the Nobel Prize Committee.  He woke at ten after six and wondered to ... Read more...

The post A Nobel Prize Winning Guitarist first appeared on The Guitar.]]> Why I Wrote My First Guitar https://the-guitar.com/466/ Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:09:16 +0000 http://gtrblg.wordpress.com/?p=466 I could give you many geeked-up reasons with spectacles shoved halfway down my nose for what motivated me to write this book.  Somewhere on the mental back burner, I did ponder these interviews in the ... Read more...

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