The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren’t on? No worries. They’d still have a job. The whole technological infrastructure ...

A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft ...

Although their numbers are few, women luthiers are making their mark and providing skilled work in Israel.

Using a gouge, Nelle O'Neill shaves wood from a violin's plates in just the right amounts. With each curl of wood, the sound of the finished product will change. "The more wood removed, the lower the ...

Musicians describe the thrill and pressure of performing on museum-grade instruments, whose real power lies as much in their ...

High school students from across Nassau County experienced history through music at the Violins of Hope Educational Concert ...

SELANGOR, Malaysia — 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 ...

Jackson Chase was about 6 when he first learned to play violin. Over the course of his childhood, the Yakima native owned two violins his mother gave him. He recalls superior violinists complimenting ...

Diedra Lukoff went to the Hilbert Art Museum in Orange last week for lack of any other plans on a sweltering afternoon. She expected a good time, a respite from the heat amid the gallery’s cheerful ...

When Amnon Weinstein first heard the words "grandfather" and "grandmother" they felt foreign to him. Confusing. In the young boy's class of 35 students in Israel, only one child had grandparents.

Here’s a little secret about violins: they don’t need to look the way they do to sound great. The graceful curves of the instrument and the flourishes at its corners for example, can vary subtly ...