Built by Prague luthier Aviator, The Rocket features a magnetic scratchplate for infinite customization – but it’s much more ...

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 ...

Tanya Shpachuk sees the guitar’s restoration as a powerful metaphor for the Ukrainian spirit amid the ongoing conflict ...

Local luthiers build new guitars to look and sound like old guitars.

Ken Parker, an iconoclastic guitar maker who upended entrenched luthier traditions by producing hyper-engineered, flyweight guitars seemingly designed for an art gallery, if not the 23rd century, died ...

Gaining prominence during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the stringed instrument known as the lute was introduced to Europe through Spain and Arab countries. They were built by skilled craftsmen ...

ALSEA, Ore. (AP) — A love for flamenco guitar brought John Shelton and Susan Farretta together during college in the mid-1960s. It was only the beginning for Shelton-Farretta Guitars. "John was always ...

He built groundbreaking guitars that were displayed in art galleries and played by Joni Mitchell, Trent Reznor and many ...

When the veteran luthier Sherwood Phifer goes out to hear live music, he hears elements of the guitar that the vast majority of even the most serious audiophiles could never pick up on. An amateur ...