{"id":15439,"date":"2017-06-27T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15439"},"modified":"2017-06-27T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T12:08:50","slug":"move-over-nirvana-taylor-swift-is-the-most-influential-guitarist-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/move-over-nirvana-taylor-swift-is-the-most-influential-guitarist-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over Nirvana; Taylor Swift Is The Most Influential Guitarist In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/062717_1206_MoveOverNir1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Geoff Edgers wrote about the economics of the guitar market:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the past decade sales of electric guitars have fallen 33% from 1.5 million to 1 million a year.<\/li>\n<li>During their golden age &#8220;guitar heroes&#8221; like Chuck Berry, Pete Townshend, and Eddie Van Halen inspired American youth to pick up electronic guitars.<\/li>\n<li>Now that generation is retiring and downsizing its collection. Newer generations are more interested in electronic music.<\/li>\n<li>The industry has tried to innovate: millions were spent developing a self-tuning robotic guitar. They were widely derided.<\/li>\n<li>It is also experimenting with monthly subscription models so parents don&#8217;t have to worry about investing in a guitar that their children may lose interest in.<\/li>\n<li>One unexpected bright spot in the broader market for guitars: Taylor Swift has inspired a generation of girls to try their hand at the guitar.<\/li>\n<li>Swift&#8217;s origins as a country musician helps explain why acoustic guitars have done better than electronic ones in recent years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2017\/lifestyle\/the-slow-secret-death-of-the-electric-guitar\/?utm_term=.99904992b65d\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Edgers wrote about the economics of the guitar market: In the past decade sales of electric guitars have fallen 33% from 1.5 million to 1 million a year. During their golden age &#8220;guitar heroes&#8221; like Chuck Berry, Pete Townshend, and Eddie Van Halen inspired American youth to pick up electronic guitars. Now that generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/062717_1206_MoveOverNir1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15442,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439\/revisions\/15442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}