William Close tells the crowd at City National Plaza that he's still figuring out the logistics of his latest Earth Harp. Over the years, the Malibu-based artist has built a number of these large, ...

Los Angeles musician William Close holds the world record for the longest stringed instrument, a device he invented and has played around the world called the Earth Harp. Close uses resin-coated ...

Middle school orchestra concerts are typically filled with the sounds of stringed instruments such as violins, cellos and basses. But for the first time in recent history at Stanford Middle School in ...