WINFIELD, Kan. — Stand on a grassy hillside on a sunny September afternoon and listen to the sound of 770 acoustic stringed instruments play “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” Pure bluegrass heaven. Folks ...

We’ve all encountered acoustic guitars that seem unplayable with their inflexible strings and unforgiving actions. You might think that this is a result of bad craftsmanship, but chances are it’s ...

If you’ve got a sick banjo, Richie Dotson has a cure. The Newport News resident is one of the area’s top stringed instrument technicians, a masterful repairman who’s able to take an ailing banjo, ...

• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...

To non-musicians I’m sure that steel-string and nylon-string guitars probably look almost indistinguishable – they’re just acoustic guitars. However, anyone who has listened to both side-by-side will ...

An ancient string instrument evolved into the flat-top acoustic guitar—an essential element in American folk, blues and rock.

At an undisclosed location somewhere in the woods of Pickens County, Daniel Brazinski taps gently on a spruce guitar top and listens carefully to the tone it produces. Using a compressor and a ...

Just because we ain’t got the Great Smoky Mountains and fields of Kentucky bluegrass in this here desert don’t mean we ain’t got folks playing a bunch of acoustic stringed instruments and singing a ...

The final day of the 12th annual Bootheel Bluegrass Festival welcomed That Dalton Gang, The Bakers, Riverbend, Bull Harman & Bull’s Eye, Herbie Johnston and acoustic stringed instruments of all kinds ...