The music drifted down from Appalachia, from the front porches of English and Scottish immigrants who plucked and strummed the string instruments of their homelands. Along the way, someone added ...

TRAVERSE CITY — What started as a way of figuring out a more transportable bass guitar has since put creatively hand-craft instruments into the hands of other musicians thanks to Caul Bluhm. Bluhm — a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X When Arthur England made a particularly exquisite box guitar for Warren Haynes, complete with a ...

On a recent morning, Greg Hobson tinkered with a wind chime he made from an old bicycle wheel, making sure it correctly played the tones from the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Greg ...

NELSON, Wis. (AP) - Jim Smit’s cold, callused hand, covered by wool gloves made by his wife with wool from the couple’s 16 Icelandic sheep, reached out on a blistering 1-degree weekday evening to ...

CHESTER — A visit to luthier Scott B. MacDonald's studio is crossing the threshold into a world of sound and the rich aromas of wood, sawdust, resin, water-based finishes and freshly brewed coffee.

If you’ve attended a church service in Northeast Ohio, chances are you’ve heard a Schantz Organ. The Orrville company that makes pipe organs is marking 145 years in business and is now under its ...