The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

Next up is a full emersion with “Music, Love and Mysticism in the Ottoman World,” a 75-minute concert led by Joseph Alpar at ...

Last weekend’s musical menu included a Bach-polished Plaza Palooza, Malian groove machinist Habib Koite and a harvest mooning ...

Pro Musica’s Art of the Concerto Grosso concerts feature two works by celebrated Syrian clarinetist, composer, and improviser ...

Other events include an open mic at La Peña highlighting women of color and a Berkeley Symphony concert all about sharing stories from home.

The Rustaveli National Theater’s Small Stage became a portal to another world on November 1, where renowned Venetian cellist ...

On the next Echoes, two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim “Kimo” West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for ...

Cythara is an umbrella term for a range of stringed instruments of medieval and renaissance Europe. This is the sixth year ...

Presley has released music under the name White Fence, known for echoing ’60s Baroque pop and psychedelia ... enemies with a soft voice and strummed guitar. The bossa nova track also features ...

Coulter, an internationally recognized master of the steel-string guitar who lives in Santa Cruz ... a “spectacular journey through folk music, Baroque compositions, favorites from Americana ...

Now, install the neck. Install the guitar strings and check alignment over the neck and pickups. You may need to loosen the neck bolts, and tweak the neck slightly, one way or the other to adjust ...