Up to 1.5 million pounds of strings end up buried in a landfill every year. BY Charlie Sorrel D’Addario, the musical instrument string-making company, will now recycle your guitar, mandolin, bass, or ...

Strings are essential to many musical instruments, but because of the metals used to make them, most can't be recycled. One of the largest instrument string makers is trying to change that. Each year ...

Brooklyn, New York-based musical instrument company D’Addario has announced its string-recycling program, Playback, has achieved its latest milestone of 2 million strings recycled. D’Addario says it ...

There are some that enjoy the human element of a musical performance, delighting in the unique way an artist teases the desired sound from their instruments. Then there are those of us who listen to ...

Evonik Industries and the Chinese filament maker NTEC have jointly developed a monofilament designed for instrument strings. Based on Evonik’s nylon 6,12, the filament offers transparency for clarity ...

An Edmonton designer, who uses “retired” instrument strings to make fine jewelry, is making sure the legacy of music continues in more ways than one. Usually strings are replaced and the old ones ...