A new year, a new instrument with way too many strings! Following the debacle that was last year’s 17-string guitar — which turned out to be a mass-produced Chinese model that an American luthier was ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

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 ...