Between them, father and son have made over 50 wooden stringed instruments. Both – Allen ... “They can connect a face with personalities and a name.” Abingdon resident Kathy Hutson said ...

some of the biggest names in the history of music have found treasures in the beautiful instruments crafted from the trashed wood of historic landmarks, much of it procured by dumpster diving.

The craftsman’s name ... and wood thickness, perfecting flatter arching on the front and back to create violins with much more power than any before. Indeed, Stradivari’s instruments made ...

Wood is a common material in many Chinese musical instruments, but relatively few are classified as wooden under the system that assigns instruments to one of eight categories, the bayin.

To capture the essence of Guillermo del Toro‘s “Pinocchio,” on Netflix Dec. 9, composer Alexandre Desplat came up with an ingenious idea: a score performed only with wood instruments.

Ever since the Middle Ages church bells have customarily been replaced by wooden instruments which, though musically-speaking very different, are all known by the same name – ċuqlajta.

Chen Chih-hsuan, left, and Wang Cheng-hao, owners of Wood Song, hold up examples of their African-inspired musical instruments in Tainan on Monday. Photo: Lin Meng-ting, Taipei Times The name of the ...