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The saz is a long neck lute used in Ottoman classical music and Turkish folk music. This instrument, very close to the cittern or the Greek bouzouki, has got three courses of metal strings that can actually play quarter tones, witch gives it a very interesting Middle Eastern colour. The first time I’ve heard the […]
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Musikalia is an Italian guitar maker, specialised in cheap traditional plucked string instruments. Back in 1994, I was dreaming of including some of those instruments in our music and I wanted to bring on stage different acoustic guitars with double strings (or “courses”). I though that they would fit perfectly well with some of our […]
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After the release of Capitaines in 2009, we decided to get on stage again as a trio and I was determined to have a change in guitar sounds. I wanted to play exclusively on a single acoustic guitar. So I had to find an acoustic guitar that could eventually replace the electric as a soloist, […]
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Here is a uncommon derivative of the classical guitar : an octave classical guitar, which is … to say … tuned an octave above a traditional acoustic guitar. While loving the sound of the mandolin, I always wondered how to mix this kind of high sound with a smoother nylon strings flavour. I founded it […]
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The nylon classical guitar is definitively my favourite instrument. I remember I felt in love with it for the first time when I heard the Genesis song Blood On The Rooftops and the wonderful Steve Hackett’s acoustic guitar playing on the intro. Then I discovered the music of French guitarist Philippe Cauvin in 1981 and […]
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One of the best electric guitars of the 80’! This Yamaha model is the proof of Japanese guitar maker’s skill. At the end of the 70’, people of Yamaha didn’t want to satisfy themselves anymore just with copying American guitars. So they decided to build their own electric guitar models and created the SG series […]