Randy Wood is just too good for retirement. Not that the master luthier hasn't tried - in fact, he's tried more than once. But folks just kept calling on him to repair or build musical instruments for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To capture the essence of Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio,” on Netflix Dec. 9, composer Alexandre Desplat came up with an ...

For further inquires about Dennis Laird guitars and luthiery, call 970-306-3208 or email dlaird@colorado.net. At the end of a street in Eagle, in a salmon-colored house, lives a soft-spoken gentleman ...

Randy Wood describes himself as “old fashioned” as we sit in his workroom in Bloomingdale, Georgia, only minutes down the road from historic Savannah. On the walls hang unfinished instruments and ...

Mittagong luthier Peter Goodfellow has spent years honing the delicate craft of building violins, cellos and violas, carving wood into objects of visual and aural beauty. Peter Goodfellow's workshop ...

Wood has been used for thousands of years for the making of stringed musical instruments. Primitive harps were in existence in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as far back as 3,000 B.C. Other ancient ...

The lordly violin and its less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble. As today’s concert halls grow more cavernous, it becomes increasingly difficult for a solo violinist to ...

To capture the essence of Guillermo del Toro‘s “Pinocchio,” on Netflix Dec. 9, composer Alexandre Desplat came up with an ingenious idea: a score performed only with wood instruments. “I always like ...