All existing acoustic string instruments are essentially vibroacoustic systems that transmit the vibrational energy of strings to a resonator through a bridge. This efficiently converts the ...

WINFIELD, Kan. — Stand on a grassy hillside on a sunny September afternoon and listen to the sound of 770 acoustic stringed instruments play “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” Pure bluegrass heaven. Folks ...

Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical ...

If you’ve got a sick banjo, Richie Dotson has a cure. The Newport News resident is one of the area’s top stringed instrument technicians, a masterful repairman who’s able to take an ailing banjo, ...

• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...

To non-musicians I’m sure that steel-string and nylon-string guitars probably look almost indistinguishable – they’re just acoustic guitars. However, anyone who has listened to both side-by-side will ...

Fender has recently updated their Paramount Acoustic guitar line and added a Bluegrass series. Under the Paramount umbrella, there are currently three different levels: All-Mahogany, Standard, and ...

Just because we ain’t got the Great Smoky Mountains and fields of Kentucky bluegrass in this here desert don’t mean we ain’t got folks playing a bunch of acoustic stringed instruments and singing a ...