- Thief attempts to sell stolen instrument to owner
- February 9, 2011
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A store owner may have been saved from claiming on his musical instrument insurance after a thief unwittingly offered to sell him his own stolen saxophone. Steve Osburn told AnnArbor.com how he was stopped by a man in the street two hours after noticing his shop had been broken into. After attempting to find witnesses in the pub across the road, … More
- Collapsible and Silent Guitar
- September 1, 2010
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So electric guitars may not be the worst instrument to carry around with you but that hasn’t stopped Yamaha creating a version which won’t annoy your neighbours and will collapse into a bag. Yamaha’s Silent Guitar was first released in December 2001 and sells 10,000 to 20,000 units annually. The Guitar’s ‘neighbour friendly’ qualities are perhaps its attraction. The instrument … More
- Beatles’ Abbey Road piano for sale
- July 21, 2010
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The Challen piano used by the Beatles and other bands at Abbey Road studios in the 1960s is up for auction next month and is expected to fetch around £150,000. It is now a battered old piano, covered in coffee stains and cigarette burns and was purchased by the studios back in 1964 and retired in 1980. It used to … More
- Bob Dylan reborn as a performer
- July 5, 2010
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At the age of 69, Bob Dylan is still capable to entertain a crowd of thousands as he recently proved at the Hop Farm Festival in Kent. More