Kristo Käo and Viljar Kuusk in the workshop June 2011 Just came back from the academy and brought my brand new guitar. My luthier Viljar Kuusk completed it last week but still kept it for polishing. Now I said it’s enough because I have to play tomorrow and the day after. He can continue polishing [...]
Read more →Even to the greatest fan of acoustic music the situation may be familiar: you need to play with your precious instrument in front of a slightly bigger (or just noisy) audience. Often you depend on the local sound engineer who sticks an average condenser mic in front of you. Lucky you if you know something [...]
Read more →Every child knows that there are six strings on the guitar. But is it alwasy like this? In fact, there are numerous examples of guitars that have more or even less strings. Sometimes there is a clear reason for that but not always. Let’s clear it up a bit. When I talk about the history [...]
Read more →Almost every day I have to explain people what exactly is the difference between the classical and the acoustic guitar. The fact that I have touched the topic in every guitar book that I have written does not make it any easier. Let’s now try with a very compact video:
Read more →How frequently do you change your strings? It can be highly individual – some players have to change strings for every concert. That can be every day. If you are recording something in a studio you can even change strings during one day. In my case the steel strings last about 100 hours, nylon strings [...]
Read more →Even nowadays I can see people coming to guitar lessons with the old soviet guitars that were made in a furniture factory. Some of the instruments even stay in tune for a while and let’s be honest – there was a time when this model was the only choice for a beginner. I also started [...]
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