Early this year, I attended a cutting-edge music performance and workshop at the celebrated venue Roulette, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, during which the ghosts of Memphis were very present.

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Like most people these days, sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. Filling the ground floor ...

Don’t fret. Benjamin Williams can repair that coveted string instrument for you. The gifted luthier, after years working out of his home, has settled in nicely to the Old Town neighborhood of Mankato.

Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place with the 40-string, 45-foot-long droning instrument she created decades ago. The sound artist Ellen Fullman near her home in Berkeley, Calif.Credit...Erin ...