Strangely, there HAVE been a few 9 and 10 string guitars done before by Vox, BC Rich and others but they were all laid out the opposite way: with the wound strings left single. As far as I know, ...

John Mayer and Ernie Ball unveil a set of acoustic guitar strings made from an all-new alloy "The first thing I notice is a bit of surprise": A guitarist tries 9.5 gauge guitar strings for the first ...

Over the weekend I was reading the Gear Gods article "In Defense Of 9-String Guitars." It got me thinking about both the points brought up in the article as well as the complaints I've seen ...

The big news coming out of the NAMM Show this past January — “big news” insofar as the shock/awe/WTF factor — was that every major guitar company with a stake in the metal game had brand new 9-string ...