The story involves the recent passing of an enthusiast Lula Mae Johnson, whose memorial service is being held, at her request ...

If anything, having more strings typically yields a fuller and brighter sound. However, 12-string bass instruments aren’t ...

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

The instrument that became the standardized five-string banjo ... he offered a variety of other specialized banjo models, ...

This new Kontakt instrument is based on meticulously recorded samples of a "world-class" 10-foot Fazioli concert grand ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the ...

It is the Höfner bass you hear on the Beatles’ breakthrough hits ... Two of the bank’s directors, Robert and Franz, owned an astonishingly rich collection of valuable stringed instruments. But wealth ...

His very lack of familiarity with the instrument gave him a ... transfixed by his bass-playing (later on an unconventional ...

Fellow bass player Rob Wasserman once said set ... Armed with a cheap four-string instrument his girlfriend bought him, Lesh sat down for a seven-hour lesson with Garcia, following the latter ...

incomplete instrument his stepfather had owned – and the Motley Crue icon asserted it defined his career. “When I first learned to write music I had a three-string nylon,” Sixx told Guitar ...

An exception is a hard-swinging jazz piano version of Bach’s “Air on a G string” from Yaron Gershovsky Violinist ... accompanied by vibraphone, bass guitar, and drums. AC Records is a vinyl club, and ...

When Lesh told Garcia he didn’t play the bass, the musician asked, “Didn’t you used to play violin?” When he said yes Garcia told him, “There you go, man.” Armed with a cheap four-string instrument ...