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 ...

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations ... of ways – piano strings are hit with hammers, guitar strings are plucked, while violin strings are bowed. Meanwhile, [Martin] from the ...

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

In the 18th century keyboard instruments were evolving at a rapid rate. Since first appearing in the middle of the 16th century, the harpsichord - with its mechanically-plucked strings held at low ...

There are three families of musical instruments - string, wind and percussion. When a string is plucked on an instrument such as a guitar, the vibration is passed into the air and you hear a sound.

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.