The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is the first installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a ...
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 ...
Long before he knew he’d be repairing instruments for renowned musicians like Yo-Yo Ma, William Koucky knew working on ...
There are only about 300 violins left by 17th century Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari and the best of them still sound great – and are worth millions today Vintage electric guitars can also attract ...
An early 19th-century French Mirecourt violin, from the private collection of the family of Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet W.
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 ...
For centuries, the standard wood used to make string instruments’ bows has come from the pernambuco tree in Brazil. Its ...
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