Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a three-stringed instrument with a long neck and a body made from a calabash gourd with a goat skin stretched over it.

“All we want to do is acknowledge to our customers and friends that we’ve been here a good long while.” More information is available at Gryphon Stringed Instruments.

“We do major restorations and minor repairs. Just about everything that's to do with stringed instruments." Carrabba along with fellow luthiers Windsor Lindberg and Scott Allen restore stringed ...

Analyses of 17th-century stringed instruments suggest that a young Antonio Stradivari might have apprenticed with a particular craftsman. By Katherine Kornei History is revealed in tree rings.

Los Angeles musician William Close holds the world record for the longest stringed instrument, a device he invented and has played around the world called the Earth Harp. Close uses resin-coated ...

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: 10.15184/aqy.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Once stocked with more than 1,000 rare and expensive stringed instruments, there are only 12 guitars and banjos left on the wall of Mandolin Brothers in West Brighton.

By his late teens, all those skills and passions came together as he started making stringed instruments. Antonio Stradivari (circa 1644-1737), was a legendary luthier. An instrument made by him ...

He took CBS News Bay Area to the legendary Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, where he began to teach bluegrass lessons when he first moved to California. Co-founder Richard Johnston ...

Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of the Palo Alto musicians’ community, died after a brief illness on Sunday ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...