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

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, ...

Frank Ford wearing his “trademark” Hawaiian shirt, hard at work repairing a guitar. Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of ...

PORT ANGELES — The Juan de Fuca Foundation is seeking donations of broken or unwanted guitars or other stringed instruments such as fiddles, banjos, cellos, basses, ukuleles and mandolins. The ...

BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...