Walking into a musical instrument store offers two primary stimuli: instruments and their price tags. But making instruments is far more complex, a balance of visual art with precision, of flair and ...

The music drifted down from Appalachia, from the front porches of English and Scottish immigrants who plucked and strummed the string instruments of their homelands. Along the way, someone added ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Audiences always seem delighted when an actor proves to be more than a one-trick pony. They're especially enchanted when a performer can act, sing, dance... and play a musical instrument. Or two. How ...

LOWELL — Mariia Gorkun was training to become a professional violinist in the United States when she stumbled upon a closet full of old, donated instruments at her university. They were in “terrible ...

CHESTER — A visit to luthier Scott B. MacDonald's studio is crossing the threshold into a world of sound and the rich aromas of wood, sawdust, resin, water-based finishes and freshly brewed coffee.

Lakewood produces circa 1300 guitars a year.. Image Courtesy of Lakewood Guitars In the middle of Europe, Martin Seeliger has been building acoustic guitars for 30 years now. The success of the ...

For more than six decades, 85-year-old Ghulam Muhammad Zaz has been diligently crafting classical music instruments like the santoor and rabab by hand in his small workshop on the second floor of a ...