Giancarlo Scopinich of Whitestone learned two important things when he tried to teach himself how to play the guitar: He was no Jimi Hendrix, but he does have a virtuoso talent for making stringed ...

Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...

When Eric Paulu, of Boulder, graduated from the University of Colorado with a history degree, he hit a “Now what?” wall. He considered going to school for law. But instead, he decided to pick up an ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations of tuned strings, using acoustic or electronic means to amplify those vibrations to the point where they’re loud enough to hear. The strings are ...