If you’re looking to unleash your creativity, or just trying to find an idea for your kid’s school project, take a look at our list of the 10 easiest musical instruments to make at home. Whether you ...

Okay, so maybe a surfboard isn't the most ordinary household item to look to when opting for custom, one-of-a-kind six-stringed instruments. Famed jazz fusion axeman Masayoshi Takanaka has been ...

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

In the parking lot of York Emporium, a bookstore and repository of pop culture miscellany in York, Penn., Justin Johnson has set up camp. On Thursday night, he and partner Nikki Jaegar parked their RV ...

NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) - It looks like a guitar, and sounds like it too but one professor at Stephen F. Austin University is defying modern music with sounds from the past. He's creating homemade ...

January 17-20 marks the return of the Cigar Box Guitar Festival, a celebration of homemade stringed instruments and their relationship to blues music. Its the third annual iteration of the Fest, which ...

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

Paul Bottos is a little bit like a Dr. Frankenstein who doesn't know what to do with his own monster. The 49-year-old from Hamilton makes cigar box guitars — handmade, homemade instruments concocted ...