Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need ...

Using 3D animation, Greg explains how the sound a string makes is amplified by an instrument like the violin. Fran shows us how it is easy to make a guitar out of an old cardboard box and some ...

How any string instrument sounds depends on hundreds of factors; even the tiniest details matter. Seemingly inconsequential things like whether the tree that the wood came from grew on the north ...

How to play Unlike many string instruments which use a bow to create a sound, guitars are played by plucking or strumming the strings on the instrument, which vibrate to create a sound. Chords are ...

Arizona left handed pitcher Mason Russell hasn't yet thrown a collegiate pitch, but he's well thought of enough to be named ...