Catherine Willis is stepping into retirement after 19 years serving as the executive director of Urban Strings Columbus, a youth orchestra. The 94-year-old founded ...

Bored with standard string quartet offerings, they put on a show that includes music from Radiohead's guitarist Jonny ...

Every electric guitar presents a problem. It’s the fascinating sort of problem that musicians delight in confronting, over and over again. But is it ever really solved?

Alto Reed was a rock star in Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band. Five years after his death, his daughters reflect as prized instruments go up for sale.

You've already experienced the wonders of Belgian musician Max Vandervorst's porciphone, the fantastical (and fantastic) instrument that Rare and Strange Instruments describes as a "tuned pipe ...

Helping out musicians all across Fountain Valley, Lorelei Crosser repairs violins and other string instruments in the violin ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

The technology promises to replace several parts of the grid with one device that’s both controllable and updatable.

Tony Furtado keeps busy. The Portland, Oregon-based artist may be known to most as a musician, a roots and newgrass player whose banjo and slide guitar playing kept him busy at club shows and ...

On Feb. 24, at Aasen-Hull Hall on the University of Oregon campus, experience fiddle music like you’ve never heard before as Zoë Aqua’s Transylvanian String Band embarks on their first-ever US ...

Giving Old Musical Instruments and Young People a New Life | Projects in the UK mend musical instruments for kids to learn to play. Music can move people in many ways. It is a gift that has the power ...

Thousands of musical instruments are thrown away every year – but a growing number of UK schemes are giving them, and the children who play them, a second chance Jason, a year 11 student from ...