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 ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

We’ve seen 3D-printed violins before, but they used an electric pickup to amplify the sound of the resonating strings. Using a newly formulated white resin, Formlabs instead 3D-printed an acoustic ...

A good violin depends on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of th Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science ...

Over the past quarter-century, the Australian label Eloquence has been issuing beautiful and copious multidisc sets devoted to mid-20th-century musicians who spent much—usually most—of their careers ...

Here’s a violin that sounds exactly like a racing car. We’re very jealous of this guy’s string skills… This violinist – Danny Cadene on YouTube – has managed to make his instrument sound exactly like ...

Who knew the venerable violin still had surprises in store for us, after nearly 500 years as one of the leading voices in music? An Australian master archetier, or bow-maker, has built a simple device ...

You’ve never heard violin like this! Dixon’s Violin - is bringing his one-of-a-kind, transformational performance to the Warren Community Center on October 26th. A former technology leader and ...

Spiders might soon give you goosebumps in a good way. Strands of spider silk have been used to make violin strings that have a unique and thrilling sound, thanks perhaps to the way the strands deform ...