Avi Avital plays the mandolin sitting center stage in a hard-back chair. He curls into himself, his face turned downward, and nestles the small stringed instrument on his lap. His intense ...

If you were to travel to the Andes mountains of South America, you might encounter a small string instrument called a charango. At first glance, it looks a bit like a mandolin or ukulele with ten ...

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It should come as no surprise that Simon McHugh loves selling and repairing stringed instruments. For one thing, he’s enamored of the objects he works with – violins, violas, cellos, basses and their ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL) — Emma Dansak, an Auburn Community Orchestra member and string instructor, will host a free string instrument repair open house on Sunday, Sept. 7. Officials say the event is for ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - William Hughes is a luthier that travels across Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas to repair stringed instruments. He has a stop in Kilgore, where he works with Kilgore Mercantile ...

Dueling banjos made pitting player-against-player -- and their plucking, fast-finger-tipped mad skills -- a trend for a good long while. It's an admittedly entertaining trend, too, one that comes ...