All Amos Hargrave needs to make magic is a little bit of varnish, the right piece of wood and a few lengths of instrument string. Hargrave, 51, is a luthier the term used for professional crafters of ...

If some instrument makers are like purebred dogs, James Cox is one scrappy mutt. He’s the kind of maker who studies suspension bridges so that his cellos can withstand greater tension and give greater ...

When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma visited the nearly completed Green Music Center in 2011, he did not bring either of his famous cellos: the Davidov Stradivarius crafted in 1712 or the Montagnana ...

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 ...

BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...

The Bay Area is home to a number of craftspeople producing high-quality musical instruments entirely by hand, people who choose and treat their materials with extreme care and are obsessed with sound ...

A new Calgarian's musical instrument is back in playing shape, after an incredible journey that started with bullets in Baghdad nearly destroying a cello while saving a cellist's life. Tariq Abdul ...