At 14, he entered an apprenticeship with a luthier – a maker and repairer of stringed instruments such as guitars and violins – and later worked for a guitar company in California. When Reece moved to ...

By his late teens, all those skills and passions came together as he started making stringed instruments. Antonio Stradivari (circa 1644-1737), was a legendary luthier. An instrument made by him ...

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: 10.15184/aqy.