Since 2019, Noseda has been quietly loaning 17th - 19th century Italian string instruments from his private ... made by Francesco Ruggeri in 1686 to an 1830 violin made by Giovanni Francesco ...

Here we are in the age of cutthroat Internet retail sales — low prices, no service — and here, still, is little Gryphon Stringed Instruments, as fine an example as you will find of that ...

“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.

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 ...

Analyses of 17th-century stringed instruments suggest that a young Antonio Stradivari might have apprenticed with a particular craftsman. By Katherine Kornei History is revealed in tree rings.

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.

“We do major restorations and minor repairs. Just about everything that's to do with stringed instruments." Carrabba along with fellow luthiers Windsor Lindberg and Scott Allen restore stringed ...