Today, the electric guitar is one of the most iconic symbols associated with the music industry.  If a young musician wants to learn guitar, increasing numbers of them are turning to an electric instrument, rather than taking the traditional, and once the only, route of learning to play an acoustic first.

Development of Guit...

The Gibson Guitar Corporation was originally founded in 1902, with the aim to produce high quality mandolin family instruments.  Gibson built a global reputation over the next 30-years, becoming associated with quality musical instruments including acoustic guitars.

Growing Gibson

Gibson’s true prowess didn’t become known, however, until the mid-1930s, whe...

Today, many recognize the bass guitar, usually called simply ‘the bass,’ as one of the leading musical instruments in the world, well known for inspiring various musicians and genres of music.  How did the bass guitar come to be the popular instrument it is today?

Early Days of the Bass

While we can trace the origins of the double bass back to early string...

Although the instruments that would eventually evolve to become the guitars we know today can trace their route back thousands of years, usually to central Asia, what we know as the classical guitar today wouldn’t be born until the European Renaissance period, originating out of Spain sometime in the late 16th century.

Renaissance Period Guitars

Renaissance guit...

Speak to some people about ‘electro’ music and they’ll tell you it’s a recent phenomenon that should be consigned to history quicker than it emerged.  However, the real history of electronic music begins in the early 20th century.

Early Days Electro

While various examples of recording equipment were produced in the late 1800s, the Theremin...

Reggae music was founded in the 1960s, developing from ‘rocksteady’ styles and the already popular mento, ska, and R&B genres of the time.  The 1968 track, Long Shot (Bus’ Me Bet), by The Pioneers is credited as the first recording of a reggae track.  The sound proved so popular that it was influencing the biggest genres and groups of the time, The Beatles’...