What enhances your satisfaction is the fact that you have played an important role in the design of your new musical instrument in a special cooperative dance with the person actually building your instrument. The icing on the cake comes when you are actually…

The ukulele is very similar to the guitar in shape and construction but on a much smaller scale. The four most common sizes are the soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone ukuleles with scales, the distance between the nut and the bridge of the instrument, ranges from…

The classical guitar is an instrument of visual and sonic beauty. Master luthiers will spend months and sometimes over a year to complete one instrument. The art and craft of building classical guitars is nothing short of amazing. The end results are…

The varied sounds emanating from the cello range from an expression of extreme sadness made possible in its low register, the middle register offers the expressive soulfulness this instrument is capable of and the upper register gives us the…

The banjo offers its own unique sound and tonal characteristics. The banjo has been a feature of several genres of music in a variety of countries and in a variety of applications. For example, it was used frequently in…

The acoustic guitar is capable of producing a wide array of sound color. The variety of articulations are available to the acoustic guitar as well as the high number of sound producing methods and techniques used to produce…

…an article with the intent of conveying to you the years of internship and the total personal involvement a luthier invests in the instruments they create…

Just like an excellent symphony, each note is a contributing factor making the symphony a glorious experience. Take away a single note and it is diminished. Likewise, with John and Nelle O’Neill, one cannot write about only one of them as their lives are like a wonderful symphony!