Wood used for a musical instrument needs to meet certain physical and acoustical properties and not all wood species are suitable as tonewoods. Research may have found some promising wood alternates.

Conn Selmer, the largest manufacturer of band and orchestra instruments in the United States, announced a tentative decision ...

The videos cover various DIY woodworking and guitar-making techniques. The first explores creating a crazy, scalloped fingerboard for a radical instrument using CNC woodworking. The second video ...

Up in the Virginia highlands in the tiny village of Paint Bank, Marty Jenkins is making music — out of just about anything: soda pop cans, cigar boxes, plastic funnels, license plates, even coconut ...

What's 300 years old, made of wood and easily outperforms most mutual funds? A Stradivarius violin. Or an antique guitar or mandolin, for that matter. A growing group of investors is viewing music—as ...