Long before rock, country or blues shaped American music, one Pennsylvania company was already building its foundation.

Some of the guitars you’ll find at Guitar Riot. Credit: Courtesy of Guitar Riot. Founded more than a decade ago, the local guitar shop Guitar Riot is an exclusive independent regional dealer for ...

BACK TO LIFE: This 1930 Martin OM-45 is being restored in the Dream Guitars repair shop. Photo courtesy of Dream Guitars In the nearly 20 years that he’s owned Weaverville-based instrument shop Dream ...

C.F. Martin & Co. says the guitar-maker's original factory in Pennsylvania has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. Martin Guitar's North Street Complex in Nazareth, which includes ...

For owners and lovers of guitars made by C.F. Martin & Co., a trip to the factory is nothing less than a pilgrimage. Long considered among the finest made, Martin guitars are still put together by ...

An international crackdown on illegal logging in tropical forests has ensnared the makers of some guitars and other musical instruments, whose top-end products require small amounts of rosewood, a ...

Eric Clapton’s 1992 set for MTV Unplugged was one of the all-time great moments in acoustic guitar. Rearranging his most-famous tracks, performing them on a pre-war Martin guitar, Clapton’s session ...