* Adrian Legg ( born 1948 ), English guitar player

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, with Lionel Hampton's postwar big band.

The Grammy Award-winning guitar player Doc Watson also comes from the Boone area, as do many bluegrass musicians and Appalachian storytellers.

On October 27, 2007, ex-Comets guitar player Bill Turner opened the Bill Haley Museum for the public.

In a 1995 interview with Kurt Loder, Love divulged that in the late 1980s, guitarist Joe Strummer of The Clash told her that she was " the worst guitar player he'd ever heard ", but she insisted she had improved by the early 1990s: " I'm fine ...

This however was not the case since many of the key members of the black metal scene were present at the show, including Mayhem's guitar player, who was not only at the concert but also working as a DJ.

She made her debut as a guitar player and singer in Peoria, Illinois in 1859, with George on the violin, and was teaching guitar by age thirteen.

The type of resonator guitar with a neck with a square cross-section — called " square neck " or " Hawaiian "— is usually played face up, on the lap of the seated player, and often with a metal or glass slide.

It is generally accepted that the tenor guitar was created to allow a tenor banjo player to follow the fashion as it evolved from Dixieland Jazz towards the more progressive Jazz that featured guitar.

A guitarist ( or a guitar player ) is a person who plays the guitar.

Australian player Brian Cain otherwise known as Indiana Phoenix mixes a range of playing techniques with modern equipment developed by playing with traditional acoustic guitar players to heavy rock and metal bands.

* 1976 – Willie Adler, American guitar player ( Lamb of God )

* 2007 – Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist ( Breakout ) ( b. 1934 )

A guitar player learns how to strum and pluck strings ; players of wind instruments learn about breath control and embouchure, and singers learn how to make the most of their vocal cords without hurting the throat or vocal cords.

Cronin had been playing in a jazz ensemble called " The Strolling Dudes " with jazz trumpet player Rick Braun, Miles Joseph on lead guitar and Graham Lear on drums.

Slide guitar is most often played ( assuming a right-handed player and guitar ):

* With the guitar held horizontally, with the belly uppermost and the bass strings toward the player, and using a slide called a " steel " held in the left hand ; this is known as " lap steel guitar ".

The main guitar ostinatos for " Ain't it Funky " ( c. late 1960s ), and " Give it Up or Turn it Lose " ( 1969 ), are examples of Brown's refinement of New Orleans funk ; irresistibly danceable riffs, stripped down to their rhythmic essence.

Other instruments associated with Paganini include the Antonio Amati 1600, the Nicolò Amati 1657, the Paganini-Desaint 1680 Stradivari, the Guarneri-filius Andrea 1706, the Le Brun 1712 Stradivari, the Vuillaume c. 1720 Bergonzi, the Hubay 1726 Stradivari, and the Comte Cozio di Salabue 1727 violins ; the Countess of Flanders 1582 da Salò-di Bertolotti, and the Mendelssohn 1731 Stradivari violas ; the Piatti 1700 Goffriller, the Stanlein 1707 Stradivari, and the Ladenburg 1736 Stradivari cellos ; and the Grobert of Mirecourt 1820 ( guitar ).

* Tommy Gaither ( born c. 1919, Baltimore — died 5 November 1950, Baltimore ) ( guitar ).

Then the brothers were in The Stompers later called The Heartbeats formed in c 1957 with Geoff on rhythm guitar ; Dave on lead guitar ; Denny Driscoll on lead vocals ; Johnny Stark on drums and Ton Edwards on bass.

After that Dave Edmunds was in Crick Feather's Hill-Bill's formed in c 1960, with Feathers ( Edmunds ) on lead guitar ; Zee Dolan on bass ; Tennessee Tony on lead vocals ; Tony Kees on piano and Hank Two Sticks on drums.

Papa Charlie Jackson ( c. 1885 – 1938 ) was an early American bluesman and songster who accompanied himself variously with a hybrid banjo guitar, a guitar, or a ukulele.

* In Carlo Domeniconi's work " Koyunbaba " ( Opus 19 ) for guitar solo, the tuning of the strings are C, G, c, g, c, e

* The Gates of Carven Jade or The Garden of Jade ( radio play ), for flute, clarinet, banjo, guitar, violin & soprano solo ( c. 1934 )

Composed of Carol van Dijk ( or van Dyk, born 22 April 1962 in Vancouver, BC ) ( vocals and guitar ), Peter Visser ( guitar ), Herman Bunskoeke ( born c. 1961 in Amsterdam ) ( bass ) and Berend Dubbe ( born c. 1961 in Amsterdam ) ( drums ), they originally formed in 1986 but split up after only one gig.

He was active in Vienna ( c. 1840 ~ 1856 ), which had been home to various prominent figures of the guitar, including Anton Diabelli, Mauro Giuliani, Wenceslaus Matiegka and Simon Franz Molitor.

Luis de Milán ( also known as Lluís del Milà or Luys Milán ) ( c. 1500 – 1561 or possibly later ) was a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist ( instrument similar to the guitar ), and writer on music.

With the addition of Andes ' brother, Matt Andes ( born c. 1950, California ) ( guitar, vocals ) and William " Curly " Smith ( born 31 January 1952, Wolf Point, Montana ) ( drums, vocals and harp ), they were signed to Asylum Records.

This creates a proportion closer to present guitar tunings ; typically C D G c e a, and occasionally a seventh low G string.

The angel playing the cittern ( c. 1680 ), a sculpture of large dimensions in the Alcobaça monastery, depicts in detail the direct ancestor of the Portuguese guitar.

* Woman playing a guitar, c. 1510, oil on panel, 65x52 cm, Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Galleria Nazionale d ' Arte Antica

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* Hugh Banton – Hammond and Farfisa organs, piano, oscillator, vocals ; bass guitar on " House With No Door " and " Pioneers Over c ."

* c. 1978-Tantamount, flute and guitar

The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.

It is a mistake, however, to imagine that Sandburg uses the guitar as a prop.

To play the guitar as he aspires will devour his three-fold energy as a historian, a poet and a singer.

One cause of Schopenhauer's pessimism was the fact that he failed to learn the guitar.

The heart of this great poet constantly bubbles forth a generous joy of life -- with or without the guitar ''.

The public's identification of Carl Sandburg and the guitar is no happenstance.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

The New York Herald Tribune's photographer, Ira Rosenberg, tells an anecdote about the time he wanted to take a picture of Carl playing a guitar.

`` He chose one from Mr. Miller's window, a plain guitar with no fancy polish.

This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.

The Plus Two remain at a fixed position with drums and guitar but the quartet covers the stage with a batch of instruments ranging from tuba to tambourine, and the beat is solid.

George Shearing took over with his well disciplined group, a sextet consisting of vibes, guitar, bass, drums, Shearing's piano and a bongo drummer.

As Brother John Sellers sang five `` blues '' to the guitar and drum accompaniments of Bruce Langhorne and Shep Shepard, Mr. Ailey and Miss De Lavallade went through volatile dances that were by turns insinuating, threatening, contemptuous and ecstatic.

Even in that he never solos like Jack on guitar or Rich on sax.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

Since 1994, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various lineups.

This form resembles techniques used by guitar makers to " impart alternating regions of flexibility and rigidity to a stick of wood.

Alder is appreciated for its claimed ( but laboratory unsubstantiated ) bright tone, and has been adopted by many electric guitar manufacturers.

The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.

It is often referred to simply as an acoustic guitar, though the nylon-strung classical guitar is also sometimes called an acoustic guitar.