A Co Armagh guitar maker is raffling off a custom-made acoustic guitar worth £6,000 to raise money for struggling musicians in Northern Ireland. For a ticket price of £10, music lovers can enter from ...

You might think that most musicians are artistically driven, creative thinkers who don’t exactly have a propensity for science. Likewise, you might assume scientifically minded people aren’t the sort ...

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Brian Howard is a luthier. If you have no idea what that is, well, that’s understandable. “Luthier” is a French word for a lute-maker. But while lutes were a big hit in Renaissance entertainment at ...

Deep in the Eastern Connecticut woods an unassuming man has spent decades building and repairing wooden instruments in his backyard. He works in a red-colored shed not much larger than a medium-sized ...

DONGAN HILLS -- In his spare time, former Dongan Hills resident Tony Costa builds custom-made acoustic guitars in his home. Now, he wants to use his talents to help out a Staten Island guitarist who ...

John Bolin has made custom instruments for rock stars on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 100 greatest guitarists. He has handcrafted guitars out of bamboo, fur, car parts, neon tubes, even a chunk of ...

NAMM 2019: It’s not often we get wind of Fender’s plans this far ahead of NAMM, but in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, CEO Andy Mooney has let slip the guitar giant's aims for 2019. “We’ve ...