Before you start bashing out your first riff, your guitar must be in tune. Here’s everything you need to know about tuning ...

Fresh strings change more than brightness. They affect pitch stability, finger comfort, fret response, and the way a guitar vibrates under normal hand pressure. Many beginners run into the same ...

For The New York Times for Kids, the photographer Christopher Payne visited the Martin Guitars factory to see how humans and machines make music. Credit... Supported by Photographs by Christopher ...