PERU, Ind. -- Most people use gourds for fall decorations or crafting. Not Ron Luginbill. Give the 72-year-old Peru resident a gourd, and a few weeks later, he'll have turned it into an exquisitely ...

Artists from throughout the state will gather and showcase their exquisite gourd art at the 9th Annual Gourd Art Festival in Knights Landing, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The festival, taking ...

The shekere is a traditional African percussion instrument made by covering a gourd with beads or shells. It produces a unique sound, which is used in various music genres across the globe. Making ...

When I attended my college choir reunion in Redlands last month, I had to admit to those who asked, that I hadn”t been singing much in the last 32 years. Since college, I”ve focused much more on ...

Ten people chose gourds from a Whanganui garden and made them into musical instruments with sounds similar to the calls of native birds on Saturday. The one-day Nga Waiata o Hine Pu te Hue workshop ...

When you think of a gourd, do you think squash or pumpkin? How about musical instruments, storage vessels or hand-made art? The hard-shelled gourd is all of those things, and so much more — and the ...

The gourd banjos have sound holes on the side and the size of those holes will impact the instrument’s sound. If they’re large the sound will be more booming, but if it’s too large they can actually ...

JIM WIDESS at The Caning Shop in Berkeley insists that I take a gourd home. The author of several books on gourds and gourd crafts, Widess has some large wire bins out back full of tawny, bulbous ...

Latrobe Valley folk musician Penelope Swales was talking with a guitar maker about the difficulties in being paid for the time spent on the craft before the focus turned to a gourd she had bought from ...