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Ax in Hand guitar store plans on musical growth

By Kevin Bartelt | July 13, 2014

DeKalb | Family-run guitar shop Ax in Hand celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.Even though its store owners have sold primarily vintage guitars, they are now focusing on expanding musical instruments.“We’ve been branching more into ... musical...

Northern Star file photo - Wesley Carr, 21 Rochelle, plays 17th
century composer John Dowland's, Frog Galliard, on his 1959
classical guitar.

Music building to get the axe

By Connor Rice | September 28, 2011

DeKalb guitarists don't have to study abroad to get a taste of world music. The School of Music is sponsoring the All-Styles Guitar Day at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the music building. Guitar players of all types and ability levels are invited by Fareed Haque,...

‘Cause I’m the ax man

By Alex Fiore | August 30, 2011

Tucked away in a dusty back room, R. Wesley Carr pulls out his scuffed-up 1959 classical guitar. The walls are lined with old guitar cases and a tattered Grateful Dead poster and the floor is cluttered with stools and amplifiers, but he appears completely...