There's a myriad of factors to consider: intonation, body shape, neck size, cost, string action, visual aesthetics ... part of a concert celebrating the luthier's stringed creations.

Robert Trebor, who portrayed the serial killer known as the Son of Sam in a CBS telefilm and the scheming merchant Salmoneus ...

Spring has arrived in the county both astrologically and metrologically bringing with the promise of warmer, longer days and ...

Inscribed on the nameboard of an ottavino spinet (a small tabletop, or even laptop, harpsichord) dated 1710 and now in the Russell Collection of musical ...

The name actually comes from the lute, a 15th century French instrument that looks like a bloated banjo. People who made ...

(Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) For a fee, Brown apprenticed himself to Ruth Esther Evans, a Riverside ...

(Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) For a fee, Brown apprenticed himself to Ruth Esther Evans, a Riverside luthier who had studied with Italian maker Mario Antono Frosali who ...