Feb. 3—When Marc Glickman was a young boy, he purchased a banjo kit. It was from Stewart-MacDonald, a small business at the time that has since grown into an international instrument supply company.

The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Beau Hannam looks at a piece of wood and hears music. He sees melodies in the grain, tones in the curves he knows he can bend into something that once grew tall and straight.

For further inquires about Dennis Laird guitars and luthiery, call 970-306-3208 or email [email protected]. At the end of a street in Eagle, in a salmon-colored house, lives a soft-spoken gentleman ...

Guitars and a mandolin await the attention of restorative luthier Tim Huenke at Superior Guitar Works in Flourtown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Tim Huenke, restorative luthier and owner of Superior Guitar ...

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 ...

Last Thursday, for the second afternoon in a row, Martin Reynolds fussed with a Goodall acoustic guitar. The problem from the day before was still there – the guitar’s unique layout made it difficult ...

An instrument crafter in Turkish metropolis Istanbul has revived nearly 800 musical instruments that were about to be forgotten over nearly last three decades. Feridun Obul, a primary school graduate, ...

Acclaimed luthier Steve Grimes is about to hold a major celebration, “The One Grand Party,” at the King Kamehameha Golf Club’s Waikapu Ballroom on Feb. 29. Celebrating the release of his 1,000th ...

Mittagong luthier Peter Goodfellow has spent years honing the delicate craft of building violins, cellos and violas, carving wood into objects of visual and aural beauty. Peter Goodfellow's workshop ...

SORRENTO — Pat McLaughlin’s business, Red Barn Luthier, is situated on the edge of east Lake County, down a narrow, rutted clay driveway far from any of the county’s busy town centers. The sign out on ...