For the past 50 years, Dr. Stanley Gross has been hand-crafting orchestra string instruments in his spare time. Gross, a 97-year-old Greenwich resident, took up the hobby in 1960 during his years ...

It's not uncommon to see small family businesses fizzle after a generation or two. But in Farmingdale, New York, Jim D'Addario has been keeping a manufacturing tradition alive that began in Italy in ...

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 ...

The art of string instrument-making will become a ‘critically endangered craft’ as the only UK’s degree course in the subject is set to close. The Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts, which is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The smooth tune flowing from Michele Trujillo’s violin carries surprisingly well over the harsh sound of metal scraping steadily against wood. As she plays ...

Tonewoods are wood species that possess certain desirable properties that make them suitable for making musical instruments, such as woodwind or string instruments – like a flute or a violin. Any good ...

Early this year, I attended a cutting-edge music performance and workshop at the celebrated venue Roulette, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, during which the ghosts of Memphis were very present.

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...