The best clip-on guitar tuners 2021: 8 top headstock and soundhole tuners to buy right now
Keep your electric, acoustic, bass guitar or ukulele sounding great with a handy clip-on tuner that's always close by
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Best guitar tuners 2021, from tuning pedals and clip-ons, to guitar tuning apps
Keep that acoustic, electric, bass guitar or ukulele in tune with the best strobe, polyphonic and chromatic tuners
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Organise your guitar effects pedal collection with one of the best pedalboards available
11 best guitar picks 2021: our expert choice of the best plectrums for acoustic, electric and bass
Transform your playing style and guitar tone with the best guitar picks from Fender, Ernie Ball, D'Addario and others
The best cheap acoustic guitars for under $/£500 in 2021: 11 top budget acoustic guitars
Your guide to the best budget acoustic and electro-acoustic guitars, with amazing value options from Epiphone, Alvarez, Taylor and others
The best classical guitars in 2021, including best nylon-string guitars, flamenco and hybrid models
Your guide to the finest classical, flamenco and hybrid nylon-string acoustics from Yamaha, Taylor, Cordoba and more
The 11 best high-end acoustic guitars 2021: deluxe acoustics delivering pro-quality performance for serious players
Vintage classics and new-school builds from Taylor, Gibson, Martin and more…
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Takamine PTU441-MTB review
- £1499
A limited run electro-acoustic that rises to a moment in which parlour guitars are having players see the value in a smaller-bodied instrument
Epiphone USA Collection FT110 Frontier review
- £3619
- €3990
- $3999
Built in the USA, steeped in heritage, this square-shouldered dread' might well be most attractive flat-top on the market
Lowden WL-25 and S-23 12-Fret review
- £3475
Two immaculate instruments that seize the moment for small-bodied acoustic guitars
Yamaha Guitalele GL-1 review
- £73
- €88
- $109
The tiny guitar with the huge, uke-like personality
Cort Core-OC Series review
- £499+
- $499+
Three tonewood flavours from Cort’s OC series offering top-quality at an approachable price
Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Hummingbird review
- £749
- €766
- $799
Does acoustic guitar's most famous songbird take flight in this deluxe Epiphone model
Breedlove Premier Concertina CE review
- £3299
Fresh from Bend, Oregon, this souped-up parlour cutaway is a small-bodied powerhouse
Taylor American Dream AD27 & AD17 Blacktop review
- £1619+
- €1499+
- $1399+
US-built Taylor acoustics at a more friendly price, the American Dream series have an old-school vibe and class in abundance
