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Air Guitar World Championships (AGWC) is an annual event taking place in Oulu, Finland. AGWC was arranged for the first time in 1996. [1] Today, national championships are held all around the world. Playing air guitar is based on mimicking guitar playing. Music genres may vary, but the most common ones are heavy metal and rock.
The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars. National also produced resonator ukuleles and resonator mandolins. The company merged with Dobro to form the "National Dobro Company", then becoming a brand of Valco until it closed in 1968.
The National Guitar Museum (NGM) is a museum dedicated to the guitar's history, evolution, and cultural impact; and to promoting and preserving the guitar's legacy. The NGM addresses the history of the guitar as it has evolved from ancient stringed instruments to the wide variety of instruments created over the past 200 years. It focuses on the ...
Smith won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas in 2001. [8] The National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame named him Thumbpicker of the Year in 2008 and 2021 and inducted him into the Hall of Fame in 2009. [9] He received the Golden Thumbpick Award by the Association of Fingerstyle Guitarists. [10]
André Millard (2004), The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, ISBN 0-8018-7862-4; Beaujour, Scapelliti (2013), Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, ISBN 978-1-61893-095-8; Neville Marten (2009), Guitar Heaven: The Most Famous Guitars to Electrify Our World, ISBN 978-0-06-169919-1
Quincy Cortez, 16, takes his third lesson with Alan Akaka, who has been playing the Hawaiian steel guitar for more than 50 years. (Stephanie Yang / Los Angeles Times)
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Nigel Tufnel Mr. Horsepower Signature Guitar Music Man: 2001 25 produced [366] Nikki Stringfield: A-6 FR S Schecter: Available in bright red burst and Maiden Mist [367] Nita Strauss: JIVA, or JIVA10 Ibanez: 2018 First Ibanez signature guitar bearing a female guitarist's name; standard model [368] JIVAJR 2020 More affordable model [369] JIVAX2 2022