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 ...

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.

At 14, he entered an apprenticeship with a luthier – a maker and repairer of stringed instruments such as guitars and violins – and later worked for a guitar company in California. When Reece moved to ...