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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, the arts call us. Sometimes, they define us. Music, in the shape of classical guitar, called Matt Rubendall. Stringent self-assessment drove him away. “I loved playing, but you have to be a ...

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

If there’s one thing the history of rock music has shown, it’s that you don’t need to have fancy gear. Artists such as Kurt Cobain created some of their best songs on pawn-shop guitars and amps. That ...