This will be updated and expanded as time permits, but here are some good links to get you started:

Guitar Companies:

• The Martin Company - The Martin Guitar Company, with catalogue, news, history, and factory information.
  
• The Optek Music - Greatest technology ever invented to improve your guitar playing.
  
• Fender - One of the most popular guitar brands.
  
• Washburn - Guitars, amplifiers, and audio systems to fit your needs.
  
• Gibson - A very well known guitar brand with very unique styles.
  

  Guitar Styles:

• Blues Website - A blues website that will make you shake your hips.
  
• More Blues - This website is full of blues information and other interesting facts.
• Jazz Guitar - A site with lessons, information, and guitarbase.
  
• Classic Jazz Guitar - This is a website about classical guitar and other information involving the genre.
  
• Stetina - Discussion Board, instruction center, and more about guitars.
  

  Tablature:

• Punk Hardcore - A site with punk tablatures. Very creative!
  
• World of Tabs - Site consisting of all sorts of different guitar tabs around the world. A must see!!
  

  Miscellaneous:

• Acoustic Guitar Magazine. This site has online descriptions of the contents of each issue of the magazine along with some interactive features like record and book reviews.
  
• Guitar 101 for beginning guitarists and adults is a CD-ROM program with more than 200 musical examples, 60 instrucitonal videos, 30 lessons, games and quizzes. There also is a guitar navigator which covers the history of the Fender guitar.
  
• Dean Markley. The web site for Dean Markley strings and other products. They are developing a Q and A format between site surfers and some of their product endorsees.
  
• Jazz Education and Musicianship. This site comes from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. The site includes articles on jazz education, information about programs and courses of study for jazz guitar, and resources for jazz charts and scores.
  
• Yahoo Search Engine Guitar Links. Another good source when you are looking for guitar links.
  
  
  
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