Thompson is a “luthier,” a craftsperson who builds and repairs stringed instruments that are played with a bow or plucked. The term originated in the Renaissance to describe makers of lutes.

Connolly Music is the U.S. Source of Thomastik-Infeld world renowned strings such as Dominant, Dynamo, Peter Infeld, ...

The "French" or "overhand" bow is similar in shape and implementation to the bow used on the other members of the orchestral string instrument family, while the "German" or "Butler" bow is typically ...

"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s ... and while the right hand plays the melody on the treble strings with a violin ...

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 ...

Back then, the instrument was shaped like a bow and had very few strings. Without the column seen on modern harps, they could not support much string tension. Between 700-1000 AD, frame harps appeared ...