Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of the Palo Alto musicians’ community, died after a brief illness on Sunday ...

“All we want to do is acknowledge to our customers and friends that we’ve been here a good long while.” More information is available at Gryphon Stringed Instruments.

To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

Five decades after an incredible year of two remarkable albums and large-scale touring, the reactivated band look back on ...

The elder Tuttle has been a music instructor at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto for over 30 years and is the music editor for Fiddler Magazine. Jack Tuttle and award-winning lyricist ...

The qanun is a traditional Middle Eastern stringed instrument. It has a long history, possibly descended from the ancient Egyptian harp, and is related to the psaltery, dulcimer and zither.

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

So what type of music reduces stress the best? A bit surprising is that Native American, Celtic, Indian stringed-instruments, drums, and flutes are very effective at relaxing the mind even when played ...

It works fantastically well, offers a huge amount of options for all players of stringed instruments, and provides the ...

In Europe, the Acoustic Pianos & Stringed Keyboard Instruments market generates a revenue of US$0.4bn in 2024. It is projected to experience an annual growth rate of 3.30% (CAGR 2024-2028).

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

In China, the revenue generated in the Acoustic Pianos & Stringed Keyboard Instruments market is projected to reach a staggering amount of US$0.5bn in 2024. This market segment is expected to ...