Chris Capozzoli was 16 years old when he made his first guitar. It took him about four months to turn a rectangular slab of ...

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When it comes to Wuxi-made musical instruments, the erhu (two-stringed fiddle) is the most widely recognized. Arriving at the ...

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From the guitarron and the requinto to the guiro and the tololoche, these are some of the instruments responsible for música ...

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Pope studied guitar repair with Charles Fox and Kerry Char at the American School of Lutherie in Portland, Oregon. Over the ...