Months ago, I gave my parents the thumbs-up to sell my cello, which I haven't picked up in 15 years. It was a gorgeous instrument with a rich soulful sound, a 1930s German cello that my father bought ...

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

Don’t fret. Benjamin Williams can repair that coveted string instrument for you. The gifted luthier, after years working out of his home, has settled in nicely to the Old Town neighborhood of Mankato.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Members of the international ALL FRETS organization visit Louisville for their annual convention, July 17th - 19th. Originally established in Chicago in 1957 as the Fretted ...

PORT ANGELES — What can artists do with old stringed instruments? How about, what can’t they do? During the Second Weekend Art Event, catch a sneak peak of more than three dozen instruments that have ...

“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...

Guitars have always connected Josh Rieck to the people around him. Surrounded by racks of wood and equipment and musical instruments in various stages of repair, there is evidence of a rich community ...

The craftsmanship says “fine musical instrument.” The jovial atmosphere says “fiddle.” As luthiers Steve Thomas and Gary Vessel work in their downtown Modesto shop, Thomas & Vessel Stringed ...

Do you have a drum set stored away in the attic? An old saxophone packed away in the basement? While your years in the high school band may be a distant memory, the musical instruments that made them ...