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Replacing Your Guitar Strings

How often should you replace your guitar strings? Most beginners and hobbyists should replace their strings about once every six to twelve months. Most professionals change their strings every one to three months. The trebles will generally outlast the bass strings by...

How to file fret ends

It doesn’t matter how well a guitar is made or how well the wood has been aged, changes in humidity can cause fret boards to shrink slightly. When this happens the fret ends can slightly protrude. Occasionally, customers ask me what can be done about sharp fret ends.

Setting Up A Classical Guitar

Many Goyette Guitar customers mistakenly think that the “playability” of a classical guitar is mostly a function of how it is made, with some guitars being more difficult to play than others. The truth is that any guitar can be made easy to play, so long as the neck is strait and all the frets level. The cost of the guitar has nothing at all to do with playability. 

How to play lightning fast scales and arpeggios

You are capable of playing much faster than you think, perhaps even astonishingly fast! Most guitar players believe you cannot play fast scales and arpeggios because your reflexes are not fast enough, or because you can’t make your fingers move fast enough, or because you cannot adequately sync your left and right hands. In other words, you believe you are not physically capable of playing fast.

What is a “hands-made” guitar?

All classical guitars are hands-made in the sense that human hands are involved in the construction and assembly process. The difference between a “factory guitar” and a “luthier-made” guitar is the amount of time involved in the “fine tuning” aspects of the production process.

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