Effortless guitar, steel guitar, uke and banjo virtuosity. This just might inspire you to take up singing. Or skydiving.

Design and Technology Exchange for Stringed Instruments and Related Systems

Guitar forums have just been added to BTEG giving the blogging community the opportunity to start its own topics and learn even more from each other.

This project began as a degree thesis in industrial design. Now having lived six years in Barcelona, Spain as a musician, Santiago Arteaga has completed a new prototype five string fretless bass.

The top five ergonomic guitar designs from 2007

Guitar builder Rick Toone incorporates a radical guitar neck with a trapezoidal profile. The intent? To reduce playing effort and facilitate technique.

Guitarmaking: Tradition And Technology by William Cumpiano and Jonathan Natelson covers the art and science of acoustic guitar building like no other book on the market.

Three new guitar models including a multiscale archtop, a chambered body baritone guitar and the chambered "Jazz Mini".

Here's what passes for innovation over at Gibson Guitar Corporation.

A new bass guitar design by luthier Rick Toone that improves

Is Klein Electric Guitars finally gone?

Xavier Padilla soloing on his custom bass guitar by Little Guitar Works

Unique twisted body acoustic and electric guitars.

Joe Giglio in a Sept 2006 live performance in New York City.

As noted - most popular posts for April 2007

The unique Forshage Guitar as its body is built.

Another look at the Forshage Electric Guitar with a focus on the construction of the neck.

A new hollowbody guitar design by luthier Chris Forshage with

Guitar Parts Central, a guitar parts and luthier tools vendor, joins Building the Ergonomic Guitar.

Building the Ergonomic Guitar moves to its new host and domain!

A look at the Wedge acoustic guitar design which addresses some ergonomic issues for the acoustic guitar.

Luthier R.M. Mottola writes an interesting article on guitar design with ergonomics and tendonitis sufferers in mind.