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 ...

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.

According to science and research, the banjo is one of the happiest-sounding instruments ever, but does it outperform the ukulele?

The hammered dulcimer is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically ... in which the strings are plucked.

The filmmaker’s return to a more coincidental, permissive mode of observation in tandem exhibitions at Dia Chelsea and Beacon is enlivening, if not always incisive.

From his 1978 debut to the record he deemed his best since Dark Side of the Moon, we present a complete guide to the Pink ...

The selection of musical events this weekend has a bit of an international flavor with a Chinese dance and music show in West ...

The Bakken Museum in Minneapolis is where science gets a bit… shocking. Dedicated to the history of electricity and magnetism ...

Transform a vast library of expressive string articulations into evolving textures and layered soundscapes with the inaugural ...