Wood used for a musical instrument needs to meet certain physical and acoustical properties and not all wood species are suitable as tonewoods. Research may have found some promising wood alternates.

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 ...

Luthiers take note: Your craftsmanship is being noticed – and heard, emanating from stringed instruments used for TV soundtracks. The new PBS Masterpiece television mini-series “Wolf Hall,” which ...

What's 300 years old, made of wood and easily outperforms most mutual funds? A Stradivarius violin. Or an antique guitar or mandolin, for that matter. A growing group of investors is viewing music—as ...

Submitted by RSP Architects and Ryan Companies US, Inc. As the world’s first global musical instrument museum, this 190,000-sq-ft building houses more than 12,000 instruments and objects, representing ...