B.C.'s guitar makers are notoriously hard to count - many are quiet, backwoods folk, idiosyncratic and quirky - but if there's one thing everyone agrees on, it's that there's an awful lot of them.

BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...

Simon Stanbridge can make stringed instruments out of anything — from baked bean tins to cheese boxes. "I just can't help myself; I think I'm up to about 125 [instruments]," he told Firas Massouh on ...

A decade ago, Kevin Gullion wouldn't have guessed his last job would be creating one-of-a-kind guitars from pieces of old furniture and barn wood. But now nothing sounds sweeter. "I don't plan on ...

Dadpur, a village in Uluberia, is renowned for its craftsmen who specialize in making stringed instruments like sitars and guitars with meticulous craftsmanship and musical refinement. Dadpur's ...

Acoustics aren't all that count when making a violin. Aesthetics are also a key element. And that's why the craft of making stringed instruments is thriving in Italy, a country known for its love of ...

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...