Artnet

Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments

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: ...
The Columbian

Sound of Battle Ground: Luthier says the climate is ideal for making world-class stringed instruments

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 ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Guitar maker Tracy Cox embraces traditional techniques to make modern instruments

While reporting on traditional work the last couple of weeks, we learned about a North Country craftsman who builds stringed instruments and... May 16, 2012 — While reporting on traditional work the ...
The Post-Crescent

The Buzz: Madsen Guitars opens in Neenah

Andrew Madsen has been a luthier, a maker of stringed instruments like guitars, mandolins and ukuleles, for more than 20 years in his Neenah home-based workshop. He sells instruments through dealers ...
Los Angeles Times

The Earth Harp turns an L.A. skyscraper into world’s longest stringed instrument

William Close is getting ready to string a skyscraper. As the inventor of the Earth Harp, which holds the Guinness World Record for being the longest stringed instrument, it’s a task he knows well.