By loosening or tightening the outside and inside nut on the truss board ... Like the two banjos above, this is a five-string instrument, and constructed from quality wood with a high-gloss ...

Like the jazz/metal klassikill maestro Barr, Seabrook speed-picks his 1927 four-string tenor banjo (his signature instrument) and a 12-string electric — two banjos notorious in old time jazz ...

together with IBM, Armonk, N.Y., spent nine years modeling and redesigning the instrument in Catia ... moving each string saddle toward or away from the nut adjusts string intonation (string ...

Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place with the 40-string, 45-foot-long droning instrument she created decades ago. The sound artist Ellen Fullman near her home in Berkeley, Calif.Credit ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings ...