Most of us have held a seashell to our ear at some point, listening for the soft rush that sounds like the ocean. In Neolithic Catalonia, those same kinds of giant shells were shaped into instruments ...

It’s rare to find a musician who not only plays his instrument, he also makes them. Peter Pickett and his team blend musical and engineering talents in a small shop in Lexington, producing hand-built ...

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