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.

Cacophony filled the Great Hall building at Edmonds-Woodway High School, as the sounds of musicians tuning their instruments ...

The instrument that became the standardized five-string banjo was frequently played by enslaved West African musicians.

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

Mack Norred tunes a baglamas, a long-necked plucked string instrument, while surrounded by other string instruments in the ...

Through the end of the year, students, faculty and community members can visit a unique and rare collection of keyboard instruments at the National Music Museum. Home to over 15,000 instruments, the ...