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 ...

Matt Artinger was put on this earth to design and build some of the sweetest-sounding guitars ever crafted. And when a man figures out what he was put on this earth to do, he is fortunate indeed. A ...

Wayne Henderson is a renowned acoustic guitarist who has played at Carnegie Hall, been honored at the White House and toured internationally. He's also an acclaimed instrument maker who has built ...

Guitars and a mandolin await the attention of restorative luthier Tim Huenke at Superior Guitar Works in Flourtown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Tim Huenke, restorative luthier and owner of Superior Guitar ...

A British luthier has had “the craziest” experience after a customer dropped off their ‘90s Gibson Les Paul with him for repairs – only to find he’d already played a role in the guitar’s intriguing ...

Luthier Jean Horner taught himself to make fiddles in the 1950s. His instruments became know as the Stradivari's of the Appalachian Cumberlands. He died earlier this year at age 91. At the Appalachian ...

Hodey is a published writer based out of the Rocky Mountains. He's had a passion for video games and literature since he was a child growing up along the beaches of California. With a graduate degree ...

At the base of the unattached wooden guitar neck, there's an inscription labeled in pencil,"9-10-15," along with Tom Shepard's initials, "TS." The date refers to when Shepard began building his latest ...

At the Appalachian String Band Music Festival earlier this month, fiddle maker Jean Horner was remembered in a special jam session with all fiddlers playing Horner instruments. Horner died this year ...