Premier Guitar Features All 2010 Premier Gear Award Winning Guitars In December Issue

Dec. 14, 2010 - PRLog -- The December issue of Premier Guitar features a major year-end review in which PG editors recap a total of 32 exemplary products (out of more than 1,000 total pieces of gear received during 2010) which have each earned the prestigious Premier Gear honor for 2010. This year, four acoustic and five electric guitars were selected based on the following criteria: innovation, quality, versatility, value and vibe.

Premier Guitar now serves, by far, the largest magazine audience of guitar enthusiasts in the world. Published monthly in hard copy and on five digital platforms (Premier Guitar Digital Magazine, PremierGuitar.com, Premier Guitar mobile, Premier Guitar iPhone App, and Backstage Pass e-newsletter), PG serves more than 650,000 unduplicated guitar enthusiasts each and every month with more editorial content than any guitar magazine in the world. On top of this, all the content on PG’s digital platforms is freely accessible.

The December issue of Premier Guitar, which features the 2010 Premier Gear Award winners, can be accessed by going to Premier Guitar's free digital magazine at http://digital.premierguitar.com/premierguitar/201012_1. The roundup can also be read on PremierGuitar.com at http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2010/Dec/2010....

Joe Coffey, editorial director for Premier Guitar, commenting on the Premier Gear Award, stated, “It should be noted that we review a number of stellar products in every issue of Premier Guitar. However, the guitars, amps, effects, etc. that we designate as Premier Gear Award winners are truly what our reviewers believe to be superior. In other words, when you see the Premier Gear Award logo in a Premier Guitar magazine review or a PremierGuitar.com Web exclusive review, that basically means that it ‘blew our editors’ socks off’.”

Award recipients in the Guitar category are listed as follows:


Guitars (listed in alphabetical order):
- BilT Guitars Relevator   
- David Munn Small Jumbo   
- Flammang Grand Concert Acoustic   
- Godin Icon Type 3   
- Jens Ritter Instruments   Princess Isabella Baritone
- Martin OMC-LJ Pro Laurence Juber Custom Artist Edition   
- Nik Huber Krauster
- Paul Reed Smith Ted McCarty DC 245 Limited Run   
- Taylor Baritone 8-String   

Award recipients are welcome to use the Premier Gear logo on their web sites and in promotional materials. Award-winning manufacturers can contact Seth Hansen, multimedia coordinator for Premier Guitar, at seth@premierguitar.com or at (319) 447-5550 for logo access or assistance.

For more information, you also may contact Nick Ireland, marketing manager for Premier Guitar, at nick@premierguitar.com or at (319) 447-5550.

About Premier Guitar:  
Offering guitarists an integrated multimedia network for news, gear information and education/instruction, Premier Guitar is the media home for guitarists who are serious about their tone. PG's gear-centric print magazine has a monthly average circulation of 30,198 complemented by the industry's only complete and freely accessible digital magazine (http://digital.premierguitar.com) that attracts more than 62,000 monthly visits; a website (www.premierguitar.com) that is the fastest-growing portal in the guitar industry with an average of more than 650,000 unique visitors per month; a freely accessible iPhone app which averages more than 7,000 users per month and offers entire magazine content; and a mobile-optimized website that attracts more than 20,000 unique visitors per month on average. Premier Guitar also features the market's leading interactive gear search service that attracts more than 200,000 monthly visitors. With nearly 60,000 pieces of gear, players can find, buy and sell gear on Gear Search (http://www.premierguitar.com/gear/gear_search.aspx).  Premier Guitar is published by Gearhead Communications, LLC, and is based in Marion, Iowa with offices throughout the U.S.

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Premier Guitar offers guitarists a multimedia source for news, gear info and education/instruction, PG is the media home for players who are serious about their tone.