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GALLERY: Musikmesse 2013 - Guitars and Basses

See the new electric, acoustic, and bass guitars from Musikmesse 2013.

"The 50th Anniversary Thunderbird features T-bird Plus pickups, a 3-point adjustable bridge, and an engraved commemorative pickguard. There's also a similar 50th Anni Firebird."

Also click here to see our gallery of new amps, effects, and accessories from Musikmesse 2013.

Perception vs. Perspective on Bass

Our columnist’s bass, built by Anders Mattisson.

Would your instrumental preconceptions hold up if you don a blindfold and take them for a test drive?

I used to think that stereotypes and preconceived notions about what is right and wrong when it comes to bass were things that other people dealt with—not me. I was past all that. Unfazed by opinion, immune to classification. Or so I thought, tucked away in my jazz-hermit-like existence.

Joni Mitchell: The Queen of Altered Tunings with Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith

Joni Mitchell’s rich, colorful altered-tuning chord voicings have set her work apart in its own musical universe, where the rest of us guitarists either scratch our heads in wonder or have to do dissertation-level research to unpack just how she gets her sound.