Wood used for a musical instrument needs to meet certain physical and acoustical properties and not all wood species are suitable as tonewoods. Research may have found some promising wood alternates.
I've seen a lot of cool hardware for making music over the last couple of years, but none of it is quite as focused on the pure joy of playing an instrument like the Tembo.
Randy Wood is just too good for retirement. Not that the master luthier hasn't tried - in fact, he's tried more than once. But folks just kept calling on him to repair or build musical instruments for ...
What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...