Get within a half-block radius of Gabriel Tenorio’s studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights, and you won’t just hear him hard at work—you will feel it.
Most mornings, there’s a vibration from the tensile testing Tenorio performs in his cramped garage as he cuts, spools, and stretches metal and plastic wires to fashion strings for all sorts of strummed instruments. Thick, bumpy cords to withstand the resonant plunks of an acoustic bass. A taut combo of