Continuing in my Chats with Cats articles I wanted to speak with an instrument maker. We often forget how important these artisans are to the tone and timbre of the music itself. Being a guitarist, I ...

Yamaha’s booth and stage at NAMM 2024 featured instruments, equipment and live performances Yamaha Corp. of America is turning up the music. The manufacturer, one of the largest makers of musical ...

Randy Falcon, the legendary Cajun instrument maker who patented the double accordion, died Saturday night from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 69. The Crowley native is best known for ...

Doug Cox works on a viola in his studio in West Brattleboro. Cox uses maple that grew nearby for all his instruments. Doug Cox has been making world-class stringed instruments for more than 50 years.

As outdated assumptions about the market for instruments come to light, some guitar-makers finally are starting to recognize that players come in... Instrument-Makers Learn A Long-Overdue Lesson: It ...

Höfner, the German instrument maker whose iconic Violin Bass was famously played by Paul McCartney, has reportedly filed for bankruptcy. The news comes from No Treble, which cites court documents from ...

Some of the instrument's best players and builders congregate in Sonoma County this weekend, but the real stars are the guitars at the fifth Healdsburg Guitar Festival. Every style of acoustic guitar ...

Months after Farmingdale-based musical instrument maker D’Addario & Co., Inc. converted its drum-making facility to make face shields amid rising demand for PPE at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic ...