The first acoustic guitar can find its origins back in the
Middle Ages.
Two types of guitars had been popularized and they were called Guitarra
Latina and Guitarra Morisca. Today, the acoustic guitar comes in many
shapes
and sizes, and the mass production of the instrument has allowed it to
be purchased by anyone who wishes to buy one, contributing to its ever
growing popularity. A set of 12 cursors.
The most influential rock band in pop history, the Beatles'
music continues
to attract fans from around the world. It was twenty years ago today...
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Celia Cruz, the "Queen of Salsa", was one of the most
successful Cuban
performers of the 20th century, with twenty three gold albums to her
name.
Celia is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure
in the history of Afro-Cuban music. AZUCAR! A set of 12 static and 2
ani
cursors.
The era of the great classical composers may be at an end, but
their
music will live on as long as there are those who listen to the
ethereal
beauty of their masterful compositions. A completely unique collection
of cursors of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Haydn,
Liszt, Mozart, Offenbach, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rossini, Schubert,
Schumann,
Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi and Wagner. A set of 40 animated
busy
and working cursors.
The Epiphone story started in Greece and continued to
Nashville, Tennessee
as a division of Gibson Musical Instruments. Epimanondas (Epi)
Stathopoulo
combined his name with phone, the Greek word for sound and began using
Epiphone as a brand name on banjos.He registered the Epiphone brand
name
in 1924. A set of 12 cursors.
The leader of the brass section is the French horn. When it
was first
made, nobody used it indoors because of its harsh sound. In
France,
the nobility used the horn during hunts, and made up special codes to
signal
each other. It was even used by the night watch to call when there was
trouble. A set of 12 cursors.
Gibson's original Flying V of 1958 was so far ahead of its
time that
even the first reissues, almost 10 years later, were only moderately
successful.
Finally, in the late 60s and early 70s, progressive rockers embraced
the
V, and the 1967 version lives on today. A set of 12 cursors.
Born in New York in 1856, Orville Gibson headed west to
Kalamazoo, Michigan,
in the 1880s. By 1896, Gibson was able to produce mandolins on a full
time
basis. During the 1920s, Gibson was also one of the first manufacturers
to experiment with the electric guitar, twenty years before it found
popular
success. Gibson experienced remarkable growth in the 1950s, aided in
part
by the introduction of the famous Les Paul guitar in 1952. A set of 12
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By the time Gibson began work on its first electric guitar,
the company
had a 40 year tradition of quality and innovation to uphold. Today's
Gibson
electric guitars represent the history as well as the future of the
electric
guitar. The models whose designs have become classics-the ES-175,
ES-335,
Flying V, Explorer, Firebird, SGs and Les Pauls-are a testament to
Gibson's
wide appeal, spanning more than four decades of musical styles. A set
of
12 cursors.
In the early 60s, Gibson came up with a radical new guitar to
inject
a shot of adrenaline into the Les Paul line. They named the new guitar
SG, which stood for Solid Guitar. This high power classic has been
driving
pop, rock and blues for more than 40 years. A set of 12 cursors.
