Over the years, we've seen Rob Scallon turn just about everything he can think of into a metal instrument. Heck, even the shovel made for some interesting metal licks. His latest experiment finds him ...

It has the look of a lap steel and can certainly be used for playing slide guitar compositions, but the relatively low action on the Kelstone 9-string guitar opens up many more opportunities over its ...

It’s got 56 strings, takes five days to install, and sounds like a prairie wind. Artist Ellen Fullman talks about why the last skirt she wore was made of metal – and how she negotiates the baggage ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

This is the sixth ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of instrument ...