Read more articles from the March 2011 Modular Instrumentation Test Report Agilent Technologies made a major push into modularinstrumentation with its September 2010 introduction of nearly 50 PXI and ...

The pages of newspapers, or history books for that matter, don’t runneth over with stories of happy accidents involving chainsaws. But that’s just what put Philadelphia musicians Lucy Tight and Wayne ...

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

(WBIR-Knoxville) You could say building instruments is in Rick Walker's blood. "My father built instruments, he built guitars. Just everyone in my family played music. It is an integral part of our ...

LOS ANGELES — The pages of newspapers, or history books for that matter, don’t runneth over with stories of happy accidents involving chain saws. But that’s just what put Philadelphia musicians Lucy ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald ...

The New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival (NOCBGF), which launched in 2016, celebrates the unpolished, meaty sound of the cigar box instrument — and its ingenuity. Take a cigar box (or really anything ...

As modular test equipment continues to grow in popularity, so have the abundance of myths surrounding the advantages and disadvantages of modular compared to traditional “box” instruments (Figure 1 ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...