STORY: A factory in Farmingdale, about forty miles east of New York City, churns out 750,000 strings a day for everything from bass guitars to banjos, cellos and violins. D'Addario & Company is a ...

A century ago, an immigrant who settled in Astoria set up a tiny, home-based guitar string manufacturing shop, continuing a family tradition that he brought with him from the Italian countryside. That ...

At D’Addario & Co., a Farmingdale-based manufacturer of guitar strings and other musical accessories, executives are whistling a happy tune these days. Sales have risen comfortably, the company has ...

FARMINGDALE, NY (Reuters) -Once a week, executives of D’Addario & Company, a maker of strings and drumsticks for the world's top musicians, gather at the company’s headquarters about 40 miles east of ...