AMONG the heavy machinery of a busy industrial estate, the haunting sound of the uilleann pipes are an unexpected but welcome distraction. But the music playing is not about entertainment -- it is a ...

A wood-burning stove is simmering in Tom Cussen’s workshop as he works on a 1930s Gibson tenor banjo. “It was in rag order when it got here,” says Cussen, whose business, Clareen Banjos, has been ...

Walking into a musical instrument store offers two primary stimuli: instruments and their price tags. But making instruments is far more complex, a balance of visual art with precision, of flair and ...

Pham Phao, an agricultural village in Nam Dinh province, is famous for making brass instruments. Almost every household in the village has at least one person who knows music theory and can play ...

A Sheffield craftsman has given the song Classical Gas a new meaning entirely after making instruments for the world-famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – using old gas meters. Did you know with a ...