Luthiers are craftspeople skilled in making string instruments – guitars, violins, violas, cellos, double basses. Their hands carve, chisel, gouge, varnish, and fit together various types of inanimate ...

High school luthiers in central Oregon build custom acoustic guitars from scratch. Sisters, Oregon has one of the only high school guitar luthier programs in the country. Every year, around 30 junior ...

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Echopark Guitars founder and owner Gabriel Currie talks about the wood used to make his guitars and a professional musician Dean Fertita weighs in. Michigan State Spartans lost, 67-63, against UConn ...

James Baggett lives in Lawrence Kansas, where he is the owner of Mass Street Music, a retail musical instrument establishment that specializes in the sales, appraisals, and restoration of high-quality ...

Grammy-nominated Malian guitarist, singer-songwriter, and actress Fatoumata Diawara recently made history by becoming the first woman of color to be honored with an Epiphone signature model. And, ...

Many moons ago I remember asking Paul Reed Smith why he didn’t use pickups made by the likes of Seymour Duncan. My thinking was that while Paul had studied and learned the guitar-making craft of the ...

Economic downturns come and go—every 11 years or so, according to Dick Boak's calculations. He's a historian at heart, and during his long tenure at C. F. Martin & Co., maker of fine guitars, he's ...

I didn’t walk into a Guitar Center Standalone Store — I simply called GuitarCenter.com expecting simply to buy a Yamaha S35 keyboard for my 11‑year‑old pianist daughter. What I didn’t expect was to be ...