Three million people visit Mt. Laguna every year to camp, hike, or play in the snow, yet virtually none of them realize they have driven right by one of the most exclusive and renowned harp-string ...

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WASHINGTON — Victor Salvi, a scion of an Italian musical dynasty who became one of the world’s preeminent manufacturer of harps — a musician, artisan, and businessman dubbed the ‘‘lord of the strings, ...

Evonik Industries and the Chinese filament maker NTEC have jointly developed a monofilament designed for instrument strings. Based on Evonik’s nylon 6,12, the filament offers transparency for clarity ...

THE harp is such a handsome instrument that some are sold simply to decorate a room. Heretics who do not like the ethereal elegance of harp music often say that it looks better than it sounds. It is ...

David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...

Upon discovering Gregg Miner's Museum of Vintage, Exotic and Just Plain Unusual Musical Instruments in Tarzana, Calif., a couple years ago, Weekend Edition essayist Tim Brookes saw something called a ...

A unique, free concert experience will be staged in central Iowa next week featuring what’s known as a long-string harp with strings that will extend across a downtown Des Moines street, from a ...

I’m halfway up Mount Laguna, walking off the Sunrise Highway into a little house on the edge of the forest. Through the gate, up redwood steps, through another gate. An elderly lady appears at the ...