Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill married singer Jessie Baylin in the US on Saturday.

People magazine reports that the couple were married in an outdoor ceremony in Brentwood, Tennessee.

In a Twitter post on Sunday morning, 30-year-old Followill wrote: “I woke up with a married woman in my bed this morning. Luckily she was mine.”

A spokesman told People: “It was a gorgeous, 70 degree day and the wedding was beautiful. It was a very love-affirming wedding with lots of warmth and happiness.”

Kings Of Leon had another reason to celebrate and were the toast of American universities after students selected them to win the top prize at the 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards.

Students across the U.S. voted for their favourite acts to be honoured at the sixth annual ceremony at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom hosted by mtvU, the college branch of MTV.

The Sex on Fire hitmakers took home the Woodie of the Year trophy, while actress Zooey Deschanel was on hand to present the Breaking Woodie award to teenage pop star Never Shout Never. Green Day’s live concerts were also recognised with the Performing Woodie.

Indie duo Matt and Kim kicked off the show by performing their song Lessons Learned, a track which later scored the Best Video Woodie, taking to the stage with eight back-up dancers who stripped down to their underwear.

Rockers Passion Pit and Death Cab For Cutie also performed, while rapper Clipse thrilled fans by teaming up with hip-hop stars Cam’ron and Rick Ross for a live collaboration.

Bacon Piano Company of New York was closely connected to American antique pianos.

Robert Stodart began the company, Bacon joined and later the name and people died, retired, or changed to Bacon and Raven, then finally to Bacon Piano Company, with Charles Tremaine as president. Later Harry Tremaine became president of the then Aeolian Piano Company which was a combination of several companies for marketing sake.

Brown and Hallet started their antique piano business in 1835. Brown was a graduate of the Chickering factory with several patents for his improvements. He retired in 1843.

Davis joined the company, making Hallet, Davis and Company. Davis died and the business was incorporated under the management of Kimball. This arrangement is considered as one of the most progressive piano companies in history.

Melville Clark’s transposing device for the antique player piano was patented on May 30, 1899 and September 30, 1902. This device has been adopted by many manufacturers of player pianos. All player actions prior to 1898 were so constructed that they played only 65 of the 88 note piano scale. Melville Clark introduced his “Apollo” player which had an 88 note tracker board. E.H. Story knew that the west would eventually manufacture its own instruments. He left the Story and Camp firm in 1884, took Melville Clark and his son, and founded the firm of Story and Clark for the manufacture of reed organs.

Melville Clark was also known as an expert reed-organ builder. This business of Story and Clark grew rapidly, with a factory in London, England and another in Berlin, Germany. These organs were of highest order in quality and tone.

In 1895 pianos were built with the same high standard. The pianos were built at a fast rate also, with factories in Grand Haven, Michigan. Clark’s name will forever be printed upon the pages of the organ and piano industry as one of the most prolific inventors. He produced his first grand player in 1904. He saw his self-playing grand piano used in a public concert at New Orleans in 1906.

The Beatles may well be arguably the worlds biggest ever band. Musically from the early 1960’s to the end of their career they covered an array of different music styles from the jangly pop of their early days to the psychedelia of their latter albums. To cover all these different sounds they needed a broad range of instruments.

Throughout their career they used a variety of guitars and you can see many photographs of the Beatles with Rickenbacker’s (325’s in particular) various Gretch, Fender and Hofner. However they are also linked with Epiphone Guitars and often choose Epiphone guitars over all other guitars for recordings and live performances.

The first Beatle to own an Epiphone guitar was Paul McCartney who bought his first, an Epiphone Casino,during 1964. Influenced by the sound of this guitar John and George bought theirs soon after. The Epiphone Casino is a hollow-body double cutaway electric guitar. Although available in a variety of colors, George Harrison stripped his down to bare wood saying that he liked the sound of the guitar being able to breathe.

John Lennon favored the Epiphone E230TD Casino and used a variety of these guitars from 1966 onwards. Lennon painted this guitar and it appeared during the White Album sessions and in the Film “Let it Be”. During that film Lennon can be seen playing his Casino while rehearsing new material. Lennon’s Casino also features during the celebrated performance on the London roof top of their office building. Lennon is synonymous with the Casino, so much so that Epiphone recently re-released a John Lennon signature Casino. This faithful reproduction is of the guitar as John originally purchased it with the vintage sunburst finish and stock hardware.

The Beatles also used Epiphone’s acoustic guitars. Paul McCartney favored the Epiphone Texan acoustic guitar and it was used to record the epic track Yesterday. McCartney still uses Texan’s to this day.

Clearly the Beatles have been one of the (if not the) biggest influences in popular music over the last 50 years. Their sound was distinct and this was bought about both by their playing and their selection of instruments. Thier Epiphone guitars contributed to their sound and a number of guitars have become iconic in their association with arguably the worlds biggest band.

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