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 ...

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 ...

Do you know which musical instrument is known as the 'Queen'? Learn about its 16th-century Italian origins, how it boosts brain power, and why it leads the orchestra.

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 ...

There seems to be some people who make art works that make full use of the charm of curvaceous beauty of string instruments, such as the thread winding part of the violin and the neck of the torso of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Violins of Hope is a collection of 70 restored string instruments that were played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. They've traveled the world, and next month ...

Jeff Reider runs the cello bow slowly over a clean-burning flame, fine hairs from a Mongolian stallion cinching together in a taught line under his watchful eye. “There’s a fine line between cinching ...

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 ...

There were no fuzzy animals at the Warm Springs Library. “It’s kind of funny," says Jaime McArdle of the Allegheny Mountain String Project. "Last year when we did this petting zoo, some of the kids ...