Gryphon Stringed Instruments: A throwbackFrank Ford searches for guitar parts in the storage attic at Gryphon Guitars, in Palo Alto on Nov. 4, 2009. Ford and co-founder Richard Johnston opened the ...

Why is Chladni's method useful for luthiers? (Luthiers are makers of stringed instruments.) A guitar or violin needs to resonate at certain frequencies to produce the notes we hear and love. (From low ...

The instruments, he added, "will live longer than me. But now I think it's important that they will inspire people in the orchestra to also deliver a better sound world." ...

Gaudet notes that a conventional, two-anchor musical-instrument string generates a fundamental sound frequency plus harmonics. Those frequencies are two, three, or other-integer multiples of the ...

Sound of Battle Ground: Luthier says the climate is ideal for making world-class stringed instruments Mark Moreland's workshop is at the same latitude as Cremona, Italy, the home of Stradivari’s ...

Go Hung-gon, Important Intangible Cultural Property No. 42 for making traditional instruments, works on gayageum, a 12-stringed Korean harp, at his workshop in Sungin-dong, Seoul.

NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) - There are only a few known luthiers, or makers of stringed instruments, known to be from East Texas. One lives in Nacogdoches County. His name is Stephen Kinnaird.

The technology also has applications for other stringed instruments. “We came up with a new approach to the electric guitar pickup – the magnetic transducer that helps create the musical sound,” said ...