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.

Christian Metzler, a native of Austria, came to St. John’s campus in Collegeville, Minn., last year to carry on the tradition ...

Up in the Virginia highlands in the tiny village of Paint Bank, Marty Jenkins is making music — out of just about anything: soda pop cans, cigar boxes, plastic funnels, license plates, even coconut ...