African gourd crafting is a traditional art that has been used for centuries to make musical instruments. Gourds are hollowed ...

The Whitefish Education Foundation has a momentous goal to equip over 13,500 music students with adequate instruments over the next few decades. The nonprofit’s first ever capital campaign, titled ...

Children can learn about Native American cultural history while making a musical craft at a Poway event on Saturday, March 1. Docents will guide children ages 5 to 10 years old in making rattles, ...

A forest engineer from central Harghita County discovered, four years ago, his passion for making musical instruments, proving, once again, that there are decisive meetings in the destiny of every ...

ST. PAUL -- Pluck a string on Wally Brunotte's strange banjo and you can hear a musical theme that echoes back almost 70 years. You don't start making musical instruments by turning a bedpan into a ...

David Tudor was born in West Philly in 1926 and, at least for a musical prodigy, his career started out conventionally enough. He began studying the piano at age 6 before switching his focus to the ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

Can a Guatemala-raised classical pianist and cellist who has degrees in music, French literature and romance languages find happiness as a museum director? And can she do so as a lifelong non-surfer ...

It stands to reason that a state with a well-known, long-standing music tradition would have a similarly strong tradition of making musical instruments. And given Virginia's rich heritage in bluegrass ...