After 42 years building and repairing hundreds of stringed instruments, Mark Bluett is retiring and passing his business on ...

Along with Leo Fender, the late Anthony Jackson became one of the most important figures in the history of the electric bass ...

Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.

The Pulitzer-winning composer’s new work, written in 17 movements and focused chiefly on six guitarists, makes use of an ...

Anthony Jackson, a musician celebrated for his extensive musical vocabulary on the bass guitar that he used across hundreds ...

We recently attended a fantastic talk and performance at the library by Tomás Lozano about an instrument that dates back to ...

Stuart Gurley, who manages both Olin Arts and the applied music program at Bates, conducts several Bates students as they ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

Meteorologist Kristen Currie discusses the instruments meteorologists use to observe and forecast the weather.

This six-string bass completely changed the way your favorite country and pop songs from the 1960s sounded. Can you hear the difference?

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Clarissa Bitar about their new album, Bakhaf al-Layl, and how they are leaning into vocals after ...

However, when travelling on a B-road with a string of twisty bends ... While I didn't quite match that figure, the instrument ...