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Thompson is a “luthier,” a craftsperson who builds and repairs stringed instruments that are played with a bow or plucked.

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Marr's latest signature model, the M-7 – also available as a regular six-string – features an extra string to provide his trademark jangle ...

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Start by de-tuning or slacking your guitar strings to release any tension from the ... As trumpets, trombones, horns, tubas and the other brass instruments are made up of lots of different parts, it’s ...

Samuels-Shragg guided the students on a musical journey through fairytales from different ... about what instrument they’d like to play for sixth grade and start band or strings classes.