What We're Reading | Learning Guitar & Cancer Recovery
Wed, 03/28/2012 - 1:12pm
Topics: guitar, Music Therapy
We recently shared how ArtistWorks drum teacher Billy Cobham practices music therapy with an autistic community in Bern, Switzerland. As music therapy gains increased popularity, Medill reports that learning guitar helps 4-year-old Gabbie Guzon battle leukemia.
Susan Cotter-Schaufele, Music Therapy Supervisor from Advocate Lutheran General Hospital just outside of Chicago, says that for Gabby, learning music is "meaningful" and "pleasurable, and so much of her treatment is anything but pleasurable."
North American debut of the Martin Taylor Maestro Guitar
Wed, 02/29/2012 - 7:24pm
Last month, Pearless Guitars proudly announced the release of two signature Martin Taylor guitars, appropriately named the Maestro and the Virtuoso. Shortly after, native Georgian guitarist Shaun Hopper purchased a signature Martin Taylor Maestro, making it the first one ever sold in North America.
Shaun recalls the first encounter with his new Peerless Maestro this way:
"Martin Taylor is a fantastic fingerstyle jazz guitar player and I love his playing. A gentleman in the [RedZone] guitar center...said they've got these guitars called Peerless. I was like, 'Dude, I've been looking for one of those forever! There's no dealers in the States.' He goes...'If you want the Martin Taylor model it's right there on the wall.'
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