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        <title>Joe Bonamassa On His New Signature Fender Modeler: 'The King Cork Sniffer's Telling You He Enjoys It More Than His Tube Ones'</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:18:27 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["I wanted to be true north, going, 'Yeah, it's tubes all the way...' I probably would have said that in 2022 or '23, but we're in '26 and honestly, the technology is incredible."]]></description>
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        <title>Zero Frets: The Bit Of Wire That Still Generates Controversy In The World Of Guitar</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:01:48 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Höfner's 500/1 violin bass and most Strandberg guitars have a zero fret, which sets string height automatically and stops open strings with the same fret wire as every fretted note.]]></description>
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        <title>Fender Launches Revamped American Professional Line: Pickup, Electronics And Hardware Upgrades — Without A Price Hike</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:27:38 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["We were like, 'What can we do here? How can we make it better?'", Fender's Chief Product Officer Justin Norvell said. ]]></description>
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        <title>Zakk Wylde Takes On The Tonewood Debate: 'One Guy A/B'd A Microwave With Pickups Against His Guitar. It Sounded The Same.'</title>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:39:31 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["When I was younger, I remember reading a thing with Yngwie Malmsteen where he was talking about the different tones that come out of Strats made out of different woods."]]></description>
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        <title>Joe Bonamassa And Fender Reveal Signature All-Digital Tone Master '59 Twin As Company Touts 'Inflection Point For The Industry'</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:02:01 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["You have to admit when you're wrong," Joe Bonamassa said of his new Tone Master '59 Twin Amp JB Edition.]]></description>
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        <title>John 5 Becomes Guitarist With Most Signature Fender Telecasters As Three New Models Are Unveiled: 'I Don't Know If The Telecaster Picked Me Or I Picked It'</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:02:02 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["Ever since I was little, Fender was always just the pinnacle, the greatest."]]></description>
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        <title>Some Builders Decided The Hole Was In The Wrong Spot: Odd Soundhole Placements On Acoustic Guitars Aren't A Mistake</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:58:57 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[From Ovation's 22 upper-bout holes to McPherson's offset ellipse and Tacoma's paisley, each design was built to free up the top, and, one luthier argues, side soundports are really about tone.]]></description>
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        <title>Chibson Reveals 'Cease &amp; Desist' Tone Knobs Amid Fender's Controversial Legal Campaign: 'You'll Bring Order To The Court... And Justice For All!'</title>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:02:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["These knobs go to 11 which allow guitarists to take the law into their own hands," Chibson wrote on its product page]]></description>
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        <title>Dean Guitars' Parent Company Ordered To Pay Over $4 Million Of Gibson's Legal Fees After Losing Legal Battle</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:02:01 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The new ruling comes after Dean declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.]]></description>
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        <title>Dumble Launches Special-Order Reissues Of Its MegaPLX, Tweedle Dee, And Overdrive Special</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:57:10 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Dumble has returned with three amps representing the very best of the late amp maker's legacy.]]></description>
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        <title>Journalist Says 60 Companies Including Amazon Targeted By Fender's Legal Campaign, Small Builders Still Not 'Off The Hook': 'No One Knows What's Acceptable'</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:42:54 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Paul Sloan, who wrote an extensive story about Fender's legal campaign for Bloomberg, said that the companies targeted by cease-and-desists include both builders and retailers.]]></description>
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        <title>Danelectro Founder Had An Unusual Way To Make Budget Pickups. It's Why They're Called 'Lipstick Pickups'</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:29:58 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Nat Daniel designed it to save money, but the lipstick pickup ended up on the Danelectro Jimmy Page used for 'Kashmir' and, eventually, in Strats built at Fender's own factory.]]></description>
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        <title>How A Strap Button Turned The Telecaster Into A Pedal Steel: The Story Of The B-Bender</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:03:35 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Clarence White needed an extra hand at a 1967 session, so drummer and machinist Gene Parsons built one. The B-Bender went on to Byrds records, Marty Stuart's stage, and the hands of Jimmy Page and Bernie Leadon.]]></description>
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        <title>Fender CEO Tries To Define What Makes A Stratocaster Amid Controversial Legal Campaign, Addresses Targeting 'Silver Sky' Maker PRS: 'It Really Is The Sum Of Its Parts'</title>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 03:11:12 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Edward "Bud" Cole reiterated that he wished he could've gone about the campaign differently, but confirmed that Fender has no intentions of stopping.]]></description>
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        <title>'I Can't Play A Les Paul For Two Hours Straight': Matteo Mancuso On Why The Yamaha Revstar Is His Perfect Main Guitar</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:02:03 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["I can't play a Les Paul for two hours straight because my back will hurt so much."]]></description>
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        <title>Fender CEO Addresses Quality Control Complaints, Explains Steps Company Is Taking: 'We Heard It Loud And Clear'</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:20:08 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["Fender has always been relied on to be quality instruments for players at every level. And when that gets called out, I need to listen."]]></description>
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        <title>Switching From Guitar To Banjo: What Actually Changes When You Cross Over</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:41:52 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The banjo's fifth string doesn't run the full length of the neck. It ends at a tuning peg set into the side of the neck at the fifth fret, and on a five-string, you almost never fret it. It just rings open as a drone while your left hand works the other four strings.]]></description>
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        <title>The Only Time Brian May 'Uncharacteristically' Smashed A Guitar, During Queen's 1982 Hot Space Tour</title>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:48:57 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The wreckage disappeared for nearly 20 years before resurfacing and getting reassembled, not repaired, by luthier Andrew Guyton in 2006. It still bears the damage today, kept as a piece of Queen history rather than a playable guitar.]]></description>
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        <title>Valco's String-Through Pickup Doesn't Sit Under The Strings: It Threads Them Through Its Own Body</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:23:03 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The pickup was a humbucker disguised as a lap steel part, and it outlived the bankrupt company that built it. For decades, the only way to get one into a guitar was to strip it out of an old lap steel.]]></description>
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