Every acoustic aficionado needs a 12-string. There’s a magic in coursed ... shopkeeper Ben Levin told me sellers usually lower the tuning on 12-strings when putting them out for display.

Due to the addition of 6 additional tuning machines, the headstock of a 12-string acoustic is elongated, and the added tension caused by the additional 6 strings requires a slightly shortened scale ...

There are certain guitars we tell ourselves we definitely must get one day, but somehow it never quite happens. At the top of ...