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 ...

(SOUNDBITE) (French) CRAFTSMAN, YAHIA CHALLALI, SAYING: "It's a profession that I love. It was a challenge. I once broke my banjo and I swore to myself not to play music anymore, not to touch a guitar ...

Were Robert Godin a philosopher, he’d most likely be a disciple of Jeremy Bentham, the 18th-century Brit who famously coined the maxim “the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the measure of ...

Pham Phao, an agricultural village in Nam Dinh province, is famous for making brass instruments. Almost every household in the village has at least one person who knows music theory and can play ...

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It's been four decades since Bernard Neumann left Montreal for Cremona, Italy, to study violin making. The now-renowned luthier, as a violin-maker is called, still draws daily inspiration from his ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Lorne Collie holds a ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

Eighty-eight-year-old Lorne Collie has been making musical instruments for more than three decades, creations that dazzle for their unique materials as much as their sound. *Billed as $4.00 plus GST ...

We sit down with Reason's Product Manager to find out more about the DAW's latest update and their plans for the future When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...