KALAMAZOO -- When Janice Newton, 67, of Kalamazoo, watches musicians on TV or attends a concert, she often wonders about their guitar strings. Just possibly, she had a hand in making those strings.

Instrument maker Frank Piesik has built a three-string robotic music machine called Greg's Harp where three different actuators excite the strings in different ways to produce sound controlled by a ...

NEW YORK — It looked like a white splotch on the underside of a Neanderthal stone tool. But a microscope showed it was a bunch of fibers twisted around each other. Further examination revealed it was ...

In a 240,000-square-foot factory an hour east of New York City, several hundred workers buzz from shift to shift making strings for guitars, violins, Greek bouzoukis and Turkish ouds, some 700,000 per ...