Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

PORT ANGELES — What can artists do with old stringed instruments? How about, what can’t they do? During the Second Weekend Art Event, catch a sneak peak of more than three dozen instruments that have ...

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

Bring a box full of parts into Nicole Alosinac's workshop in East Vancouver and she'll turn it into a guitar. The talented instrument repair artist was once tasked with returning a shattered Les Paul ...

The violin, viola, cello and double bass are among the most recognisable orchestral and solo instruments. But there is a particular set known as the "Golden Age" instruments which are arguably the ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations of tuned strings, using acoustic or electronic means to amplify those vibrations to the point where they’re loud enough to hear. The strings are ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...