We all know the names of common musical instruments, but this list of 11 unusual musical instruments with weird names will show you that there are some out there you’ve never seen or heard about. As ...

OK, let’s figure this one out. Here we are in the age of cutthroat Internet retail sales — low prices, no service — and here, still, is little Gryphon Stringed Instruments, as fine an example as you ...

Frank Ford wearing his “trademark” Hawaiian shirt, hard at work repairing a guitar. Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of ...

Well, you are only about a millennium behind the times. But never fear. Opportunities to hear this ancient Chinese two-stringed instrument known for it’s plaintive humanlike tone are on the upswing. A ...

Hand the banjo man a stringed instrument, and he’ll pick you a tune fine enough to make Bill Monroe, the so-called father of bluegrass, perk up his ears. Hand him a cigar box, a car tag and a guitar ...

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...