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: ...

Frank Ford wearing his “trademark” Hawaiian shirt, hard at work repairing a guitar. Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of ...

OK, let’s figure this one out. Here we are in the age of cutthroat Internet retail sales — low prices, no service — and here, still, is little Gryphon Stringed Instruments, as fine an example as you ...

A Woodmere man says he is one of about 80 full-time violin makers in the United States. Ed Maday, 57, told News 12 that he has been making violins, violas, cellos and other stringed instruments since ...

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 ...

• 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 ...

At the tender age of 4, Michael Becker began playing the violin. He played in the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra while studying music at Drake University, and 21 years ago he and his wife started their ...

The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

Hand the banjo man a stringed instrument, and he'll pick you a tune fine enough to make Bill Monroe, the so-called father of bluegrass, perk up his ears. Hand him a cigar box, a car tag and a guitar ...

At the heart is a love story between Lev, an un- or at least under-employed research scientist from St Petersburg, and Maya, an Indian woman twenty years his junior who is a puppeteer. Their affair is ...