(RNS) — After a beloved choirmaster of a Texas church died in 2020, her congregation wanted to honor her in a unique way. The committee of Cross Tracks Church, a United Methodist congregation in the ...

For most people, the desire to build a musical instrument is culled from a belief that if you really want a specific sound, you have to create it yourself. To David Mack, however, it was more of a ...

BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) -Mitch Moehring is a double bass luthier, which is the name for one who makes stringed musical instruments. He is a former music teacher who taught 6th graders and was introduced ...

BUFFALO, NY {WKBW-TV} — Daniel Yost knows all about string instruments from medieval times because he makes them. He's a luthier and learned the art of making lutes, lyres and other old time ...

It's pretty common for a father to teach his son about the family business or even share the same talents and abilities. But it isn't every day you see a father-in-law and a son-in-law bonded by the ...

CHICAGO -- Paul Becker of Carl Becker & Son in Chicago makes no bones about his father's legacy of violin making. "He was the best in the world. There was no doubt. There was no one who came close to ...

Mike Corrigan is maintaining a centuries-old craft of making and repairing brass instruments. Musicians from Bruno Mars' band, Lincoln Center's jazz series and others from around the world come to his ...

A two-year uilleann pipe-making class in Dublin is helping to preserve one of Ireland's oldest traditional instruments. The uilleann pipe-making class is part of Ballyfermot College of Further ...