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12-string Teles, baritone offsets, and diamond-laced Strats headline the Fender Custom Shop's 2025 Prestige Collection

NAMM 2025: Fender truly returned to NAMM with a bang this year. In one of its biggest launches in years, the company unveiled ...
Los Angeles Times

John Lennon’s newly repaired 12-string ‘Help!’ guitar sells for a record $2.85 million

John Lennon’s long-lost, newly repaired 12-string guitar has set a world record as the most expensive Beatles guitar sold in auction history. The Framus Hootenanny, which was used by the famed ...
New Atlas

Fender goes oddball on a budget with Squier Paranormal guitars

Like Fender's Parallel Universe guitars, the Squier Paranormal series explores bizarre model combinations and "what if?" oddities, but at more budget-friendly price points. The latest release includes ...
MusicRadar

A Jazzmaster 12-string?! Squier steals the limelight from Fender with its new Paranormal Series guitars

Squier is where the action is at this Summer: the latest additions to its Paranormal Series is going for your wallet with electric guitars that offer inspiring designs at a tempting price. There's ...
The New York Times

1 Man. 12 Strings. 300 Guitars.

The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments, carefully stored in a climate-controlled room. By Zoë Lescaze In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most ...
MusicRadar

“He approached life with a gusto, intensity, a wicked sense of humour”: 12-string acoustic maestro and prolific guitar designer Paul Brett has died, aged 76

Paul Brett, the 12-string acoustic virtuoso turned guitar designer who collaborated with the likes of Arthur Brown and folk-rock legend Roy Harper, has died, aged 76. Born in London, latterly of ...