At the Instrument Shop, you don’t buy. You build. It’s a combination of wood shop, art class and music haven for teenagers. The nonprofit, which officially opened earlier this summer, is filled with ...

For further inquires about Dennis Laird guitars and luthiery, call 970-306-3208 or email [email protected]. At the end of a street in Eagle, in a salmon-colored house, lives a soft-spoken gentleman ...

David Byrne has been writing songs about architecture for three decades. The first single by his postpunk art-rock supergroup, the Talking Heads, was 1977's "Love—>Building on Fire," and the band's ...

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 ...

Berkeley fourth-grader Ronan Kelley ran his fingers along the side of his wooden musical instrument feeling for rough edges he still needed to smooth with sandpaper. It's an odd instrument - two small ...

What would it sound like if every Maker Faire turned into a jam session, with music designed for bands of newly minted instruments? If you live in the Bay Area, you’re in the right place to discover ...

We call violins, violas, cellos and basses a “family” of strings, but they’re more like fraternal than identical twins. Each has a distinct timbre that comes through whenever they play as a group.

Paul Gardinier loves the exactitude. That’s the part of making string instruments that stands out as the Juneau man’s favorite. “It’s super precise,” Gardinier told the Capital City Weekly while ...