GATESVILLE — Moving from guns to guitars has been a smooth transition for The Guitarsmiths, a creative endeavor launched by and for military veterans. Jay Strite, a former Air Force sergeant, and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Workshops at the Ukulele Festival include programs for Beginners; ...

LOUISVILLE — Tim Tucker, a luthier, spends five days a week in a small fish bowl-type office doing something he loves: building and repairing instruments. But not just any instruments. Tucker has had ...

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 ...

Photo taken on May 13, 2019 shows the tuning pegs and neck of an Erhu in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a ...

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: ...