The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax ...

DECTUR - Jennifer Orange longed to regain the musical talent she had when she played violin as a child. "I had to pick an instrument in grade school and took up the violin," said Orange, 61, who took ...

Manufacturers are getting nervous as 3D printers are getting more and more skilled at perfectly recreating every last detail of a physical object. But on the flip side of that coin is the possibility ...

Stradivarius violins are valued in the millions of dollars. Is this the genuine article or one of the hundreds of thousands of reproductions? And, are the case and bow worth much? Terry Maurer Terry ...

SALT LAKE CITY – Sitting side-by-side on wooden workbenches in a small, two-story shop in the heart of Utah’s capital city, 22 of the nation’s most-promising violin builders are learning to make the ...

The Cathedral has stood tall in the center of Cremona since the 12th century, but the heartbeat of this city is heard in the ...

Joseph Nagyvary set the world of violinmaking afire in 1977 with his research into the legendary Stradivarius violins. The instruments made by Antonio Stradivari in the 17th and 18th century, along ...