BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...

A wet dream for DJs who want to play in a live band without leaving the wheels of steel, California musician and instrument builder Walter Kitundu has built a family of “Phonoharps”—stringed ...

Performances in N.Y.C. For centuries, the standard wood used to make string instruments’ bows has come from the pernambuco tree in Brazil. Its future is uncertain. Chase Maggiano, who restores bows at ...

Dulé Hill learns how stringed instrument making can help those in recovery for addiction. Dulé Hill meets Doug Naselroad, the founder of the Appalachian Stringed Instrument Company and the Culture of ...

• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...