According to many musicians, in order to have the best sound possible, an acoustic guitar has to be made from the "right" type of wood. Unfortunately, such wood often comes from endangered, ...

No matter how good the tone of modern materials such as Flaxwood and Arium are claimed to be, some players will simply not entertain owning a guitar unless it's made from vintage wood. Fender has soft ...

Since the seventies, New Yorker Rick Kelly has been making guitars from the “bones of old New York.” Handmade guitars on display at Carmine Street Guitars in the West Village were crafted from wood ...

EL CAJON, Calif. — Earth Day 2023 is Saturday, April 22nd. The nation's biggest acoustic guitar manufacturer is celebrating its Urban Wood Initiative. In this Zevely Zone, I met a legend in El Cajon.

CONCRETE, Wash. – While some companies look ahead only as far as the next quarterly financial statement, Pacific Rim Tonewoods has embarked on a business plan involving figured maple wood that won’t ...

Using reclaimed wood from vacant buildings, Wallace Detroit Guitars turns the city’s history into music-making works of art. If there’s one thing Detroit natives take pride in, it’s their city’s ...

Big-name acoustic guitarists in the 1960s were likely using instruments with wood sourced from Hoquiam’s Posey Manufacturing Co., an Australian professor recently discovered. Professor Chris Gibson ...

A new book and museum exhibition celebrate the work of North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines. His handmade guitars are crafted from found materials and hunks of old wood, including some from a tree ...

The philosophical riddle is posed so often it has grown mossy with cliché: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It turns out the answer is yes, it makes ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. The tone is in the woods. While nailing down exact numbers is next to impossible, it’s fair to say ...

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