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Harley Benton’s new acoustic is a compact parlour with a solid top and metallic colour finish – and it is just $250
By Jonathan Horsley published
With five colour finishes to choose from, the CLF-50E is an eye-catching, couch-friendly but stage-ready acoustic electric for players on a budget

Jacob Collier says that the problem with using AI for music making is that “it’s almost too perfect”
By Ben Rogerson published
“It can't learn a perspective or a sense of humour or an attitude,” he argues

Ken Parker, the visionary luthier behind the Parker Fly, has died, aged 73
By Jonathan Horsley published
Parker was one of guitar designs great radicals, whose legendary electric, the Parker Fly, became a '90s classic, famously played by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Adrian Belew, David Lynch and more

Mikael Åkerfeldt has played Cobain’s D-18 and holy grail acoustics from the Martin museum but says his new OM beats the lot
By Jonathan Horsley published
Limited to 74 instruments worldwide, the Opeth frontman's signature model has a truly exquisite three-piece back of Guatemalan rosewood with an East Indian rosewood wedge

Using his signature ‘DAEAD’ tuning, Jacob Collier recorded a 5-string acoustic guitar album in just four days
By Ben Rogerson published
"I had to work so fast that I couldn’t second-guess anything - I just had to roll with and trust the process," he says

Gibson expands acoustic Murphy Lab collection with five Light Aged classics – including a Nick Lucas 1929 reissue
By Jonathan Horsley published
Gibson's newest Murphy Lab arrivals include a 1963 Dove, a 1955 J-45, pre and post-war SJ-200s, and a Nick Lucas Special from 1929 in Argentine Grey

“One of the handsomest guitars around, it plays great, and punches well above its weight in the tone stakes”: Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Custom Hummingbird Deluxe EC review
By Neville Marten published
Epiphone collaborates with Gibson Custom to come up with one of its tastiest acoustics yet

Gibson gives the “King of the Flat-Tops” a whole new meaning with the $99,999 SJ-200 Monarch #100
By Jonathan Horsley published
Gibson just made its 100th Monarch and this one-of-one jumbo has real gold binding and hardware, actual diamonds, and it might just be the most opulent acoustic guitar it – or anyone – has made

“We have a business need to become more efficient”: Redundancies loom at struggling acoustic firm
By Will Simpson published
But MD says “no decisions have been made”

Epiphone resurrects a 1963 Dove and five classic acoustics with help from the Gibson Custom Shop
By Jonathan Horsley published
Epiphone's partnership with the Gibson Custom Shop just gets better as it adds a Dove, a pair of Hummingbirds, two stunning SJ-200s and a Banner-era J-45 to its Inspired By Gibson Custom series
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