The Taylor 916ce Grand Symphony Acoustic Electric Cutaway Guitar is so freakin sick it should come with a warning from the Attorney General.  Handcrafted by God himself, everything about this guitar is superior; from the rarest high-grade Indian Rosewood, to the hand selected Sitka spruce tops and the iridescent pearl and abalone rosette inlays.  If I was a dying child, my one and only make-a-wish would be to touch this guitar.

The Grand Symphony produces a deeper bass than most Taylor made guitars, but still maintains that full mid with a crisp balanced high end that you’ve come to expect from Taylor.  Of course the guitar wouldn’t be complete without Taylor’s Expression System Pickup which was designed to faithfully reproduce the guitars native tone.  This instrument was made for people that know their guitar.

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When it comes to learning an instrument, the most important part is having fun and getting lit-up.  The LK-270 from Casio not only has both down to a science, it has the cost down as well.  This affordable 61 key instrument is touch sensitive (if you want it to be), which means the harder you pounce, the louder it sounds.  Watch the digital display to learn which fingers hit the lighted keys.  Use one of the 570 onboard tones, 180 rhythms and digital effects, or practice with Casio’s lighted key lesson system.  There are even audio inputs for an MP3 Player, Mic, and a USB port for MIDI control.  You can even load your favorite songs in the SD slot for a lighted lesson.  I found that being able to dumb down the tempo was paramount for my non musically inclined learning pace. 

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You don’t need to be 18 to have fun with this centerfold.

Swedish airline pilot Fredrik Johansson got tired of trying to find a place to store his guitar on the plane and decided to take maters into his own hands. The DeVillain Guitar Company and its first product, Centerfold, is a folding electric guitar. The strings roll up as the maple neck and rosewood fingerboard folds back onto the Honduras mahogany base. It takes about 20 seconds to fold and unfold the instrument. Surprisingly the strings stay well tuned, you’ll probably have to perform a quick fine adjustment, same as any other guitar after breaking it out of the case. Catch the video demo by Maurice Spencer; I swear the background music is from Crocodile Dundee, but whatever, it’s a good demo.

If I could make love to any piano in the world, it would probably be this one. Of course that’s a ridiculous assertion, everybody knows that piano’s reproduce asexually.
The name of this beauty is the M. Liminal and it was designed by Philippe Gendre and the NYT Line.  The instrument is made in Italy by the Fazioli Company.  If you were wondering, the design was inspired by the sea, the shape of the side evokes the profile of a wave while the black-silver colour that of silver-surfer; or a dolphin, I can’t remember which.
Take a look at the video!

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So you want to play Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s rendition of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” but you just can’t get that sound out of your obscenely expensive guitar, even with a capo on the 12th fret. To rectify this dire situation you’ll need to purchase yourself a quality ukulele, and if you learned anything worth remembering in 2nd grade it was that the Martin 5K Uke is the obvious ukulele of choice. If you don’t recall learning this bit of information in 2nd grade, it’s most likely due to the fact that the Martin 5K Uke was issued in 2006, so you’re either over the age of ten or you’re a 4th grader that didn’t pay attention on ukulele day.

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