NASHVILLE — A scant eight weeks after Ron Volbrecht got his first guitar for his 16th birthday, he played his first gig.The band was composed mostly of his football buddies from Morton High School in ...

Musicians are always singing about social change. Now their guitars are getting into the act. Martin Guitar Co. has just unveiled one of the greenest guitars to date: the D Mahogany 09, an acoustic ...

PHOENIX — Jack Ward left his family and friends back home in Yorkshire, England when he moved to Phoenix to learn how to make guitars. “I’ve played guitar since I was 9,” he said. “I just want to ...

I’m part of a team of professors and high school teachers around the country that encourages high schools to teach kids to build guitars as a way of making science, technology, engineering and math ...

Matt Artinger was put on this earth to design and build some of the sweetest-sounding guitars ever crafted. And when a man figures out what he was put on this earth to do, he is fortunate indeed. A ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. — Kent Barcus said he couldn’t afford to buy the kind of quality guitar he wanted. So he decided to build one. Then he built another. Then nine more. Barcus, 63, has always enjoyed ...