For the past 50 years, Dr. Stanley Gross has been hand-crafting orchestra string instruments in his spare time. Gross, a 97-year-old Greenwich resident, took up the hobby in 1960 during his years ...

It's not uncommon to see small family businesses fizzle after a generation or two. But in Farmingdale, New York, Jim D'Addario has been keeping a manufacturing tradition alive that began in Italy in ...

Paul Gardinier loves the exactitude. That’s the part of making string instruments that stands out as the Juneau man’s favorite. “It’s super precise,” Gardinier told the Capital City Weekly while ...

The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

The art of string instrument-making will become a ‘critically endangered craft’ as the only UK’s degree course in the subject is set to close. The Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts, which is ...

Early this year, I attended a cutting-edge music performance and workshop at the celebrated venue Roulette, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, during which the ghosts of Memphis were very present.