Guitare Sèche Le Mag numéro 55

These are strange times. The main event of 2020 will have been so huge that all other information has faded into the background. The virus has forced us to put the present in brackets, rejecting projects in an unpredictable future, and the past as the only source of comfort, virtual substitutes looking more like a sad joke than a viable solution.
Our thoughts go especially to the professionals, musicians in the first place, technicians, but also restaurateurs, event workers and more generally, all those who are prevented from practicing their profession. They are prevented from practicing their profession for public health reasons, but it is hard to understand why entertainment, culture and leisure, which are so essential to give meaning to our lives, would be more dangerous than crowded transport or overcrowded classrooms. In these reasons which push to operate an incomprehensible and deadly distinction, it is more and more difficult not to see the trace of a possible and unjust dogmatism. Musical instrument dealers are also subject to unbearable working hours, when the majority of their customers are struggling to run to the local supermarket after work. It would be a bad choice to rely only on online sales in these times when we accept to make efforts to eat organic, but when we are reluctant to buy our instruments at the corner store. When the latter closes, it will be too late to regret the time when we could always find a set of strings in emergency or an amp to help us out when ours failed before the concert.
We live in a strange time. We ourselves have been forced to suspend the publication, the time to face the bankruptcy of our main distributor and to wipe the resulting slate. It is therefore a renewed magazine that you hold in your hands, but, as you have noticed, we have kept a large part of the sections you like, expanded the pedago, added a section in which we will talk about everyday guitars and not only about vintage guitars that are unaffordable for the average person. Tests with more room for pictures, because reading a magazine on paper (or on a tablet) is also a moment of pleasure, out of time. No doubt a simple way to hang up on the present and contemplate the new creations of manufacturers or beautiful pieces of wood that have lived well. Our instrument, irremediably anchored in its classical, blues and folk roots, does not turn only to the past and you will notice that from Larkin Poe to The White Buffalo, artists renew the genre by keeping the guitar in the center of the debates. The manufacturers are not to be outdone, with Taylor renewing its manufacturing methods with the 816Ce, Yamaha finally testing the Silent Guitar, or Kala making a change towards truly renewable essences.
You'll find your magazine, but your magazine also wants to find you. Contact us and we'll answer your questions or concerns. It's a strange time, but caught between the past and the future, it's just the right time to open your magazine and treat yourself to a good slice of the present.
The editors