Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

Instruments of "violin genus" such as violin, viola, cello and contrabass are traditionally opened in the opening of the letter "F" on the body surface of the instrumentF HoleTo be holding. The shape ...

Because what else would a luthier in lockdown do? While some people have taken up baking in the last few months, or mastered at-home DIY, one luthier decided to continue her usual day job – but with a ...

In Sioux Falls, the Mount Zion Congregation and Curious Music Collective held a one-of-a-kind show Saturday night featuring restored Holocaust-era string instruments.

Violin, viola, cello, double bass and harp are classical family members, but your suggestions may take a bow to other genres and pluck out many a musical gem I felt, at first, the sudden clasp of ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...

What he does: Owns Hosmer Violins at 7101 E. Genesee St. in the town of Manlius. He sells and repairs violins, violas and cellos. Family: He and his wife, Maria; two adult daughters. What's new: After ...

The world’s violins are mostly made of spruce and maple tonewood, trees grown in the northern hemisphere. But what if indigenous African woods from the southern hemisphere were used to create an ...