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Malaysian luthier Tan Chin Sang checks the maple for a violin back plate at his workshop in the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) ...

The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the Holocaust, is coming to the West Coast. “The Violin Maker” will have its ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — After being laid off from her job in hospitality, Amanda Ewing needed to find a new rhythm in life. The answer she landed on is one that's blazing trails and paving the way ...

Once a poverty-stricken rural area, Queshan County in China has transformed into a major violin-making hub that produces ...

A master craftsman supposedly pours their soul into their work. In this book review of The Violin Maker’s Secret, we explore an instrument that possesses a soul and a memory entirely its own. Evie ...

For 500 years, violin-makers have crafted their instruments by hand. But for the past three years, three Minnesotans have been crafting them with the help of a CT scanner and computer-aided machine.

Long before any bow caresses its strings, a handcrafted violin must be delicately cut and reshaped to the finest of measurements. German violin maker teaches his son and apprentice from a truck in ...

Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate strokes. The work is meditative, out of the public eye. For Tan, ...