At the Instrument Shop, you don’t buy. You build. It’s a combination of wood shop, art class and music haven for teenagers. The nonprofit, which officially opened earlier this summer, is filled with ...

The Norwegian trio Building Instrument has taken its time to record its debut album. The Bergen-based trio--featuring vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Kvien Brunvoll, known for her duo with ...

Lakewood produces circa 1300 guitars a year.. Image Courtesy of Lakewood Guitars In the middle of Europe, Martin Seeliger has been building acoustic guitars for 30 years now. The success of the ...

David Byrne has been writing songs about architecture for three decades. The first single by his postpunk art-rock supergroup, the Talking Heads, was 1977's "Love—>Building on Fire," and the band's ...

For further inquires about Dennis Laird guitars and luthiery, call 970-306-3208 or email [email protected]. At the end of a street in Eagle, in a salmon-colored house, lives a soft-spoken gentleman ...

What would it sound like if every Maker Faire turned into a jam session, with music designed for bands of newly minted instruments? If you live in the Bay Area, you’re in the right place to discover ...

Berkeley fourth-grader Ronan Kelley ran his fingers along the side of his wooden musical instrument feeling for rough edges he still needed to smooth with sandpaper. It's an odd instrument - two small ...

Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...