By his late teens, all those skills and passions came together as he started making stringed instruments ... of the finest historical violins in the world, Moreland said. Moreland once attended ...

We said, ‘No we don’t, we’ll stick it out; the world is going to come back ... More information is available at Gryphon Stringed Instruments.

Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of the Palo Alto musicians’ community, died after a brief illness on Sunday ...