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 ...

The great luthiers of the Italian town of Cremona were the masters of musical "string theory" - no one has done better in the art of making violins. Dean Reynolds reports on their craft, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

'My Violin Needs Help! A Repair Diagnostics Guide for Players and Teachers' offers advice from beginners to experts on violin repairs. Korinthia Klein is a luthier and the owner and operator of ...

The old adage tells us not to judge a book by its cover, and now it seems as though we shouldn’t judge a violin by its price. Violins crafted in the so-called "golden age" by expert makers Antonio ...

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 ...

Joan-Kristen Gray sat on the scuffed floor of the dance studio, squeezed tightly between her classmates, watching intently as fellow eighth-grader Sasha Arzhelik improvised a hip-hop dance to the ...