It was Australia's loss when Leonard Williams brought his family to Britain in 1952 to open a guitar school in London Leonard Williams emigrated to Australia in the late 1930s where he met Marlaan, a Chinese/Australian, daughter of a well known Melbourne barrister through their mutual love of jazz, and later married her

When a successful session musician discussed the creation of a new group and was told it might go down like a big lead balloon, he didn't turn back He went to form what may be the most successful band of all time

The Harp guitar is one of the most interesting variations on the standard guitar, it has a very beautiful sound and can be found in both electronic and acoustic versions I came across a word with an interesting sound the other day, one I hadn't really heard before

No, this isn't the story of Blues music on America's highest mountain, this is the story of influential blues musician McKinley Morganfield, a virtuoso of slide guitar Slide guitar is also known a bottleneck guitar because bottlenecks were the first materials used to produce the effect

According to Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson was 'the most important blues singer who ever lived' He is number five in Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, but the man himself is still part legend, part mystery

There is a weird and wonderfully shaped building known as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum It isn't in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Memphis

Guitars have in one form or another been around for thousands of years There are paintings in Egyptian tombs showing instruments which are similar