The philosophical riddle is posed so often it has grown mossy with cliché: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It turns out the answer is yes, it makes ...

It wasn’t long after the California-based company’s founding that their ultra high-quality, fine sounding guitars attracted the attention of great players and artists. Many of these players not only ...

SANTA CRUZ >> The letter arrived one day at a tiny guitar-making shop in Santa Cruz, back when people used to communicate that way. It came in a lavendar envelope and in the top left corner was a ...

UCSC art alumna Renée Flower and former head of publications for University Relations Jim MacKenzie. Stephen Strahm explains the design for the top bracing of one of his guitars. (Photo by Renée ...

Brad Paisley strumming his signature model for the first time at Artisan Guitars in Franklin, Tennessee. Photo by Ben Enos. Courtesy Santa Cruz Guitars. As Summer NAMM 2015 was coming to a close, a ...

The California-based company makes less than 700 hand-crafted acoustic guitars every year. If you look to buy through the company, you’ll wait a year and a half. That’s how far they’re backlogged with ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Authorities have recovered nine vintage ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Authorities have recovered nine vintage guitars that were stolen nearly a year ago in a $2 million heist in Southern California. Santa Cruz police found the guitars after serving ...