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 ...

One little trick and BAM, you’ve got yourself a brand-new string instrument. Violinist Esther Abrami has come up with a brilliant trick to make a violin sound like a cello: and literally all you have ...

It is a house of music. The three daughters in the family play violin. The mother is a violin maker who creates her magic in a shop in back of the house Up to six hours a day, the beautiful sounds of ...

Tokyo A Japanese scientist said he has made violin strings out of spider silk and claims that – in the right hands – they produce a beautiful sound. Thousands of the tiny silk strands can be wound ...

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 ...

SPIDERS can now give you goosebumps in a good way. This violin owes its thrilling sound to its strings – the first to be spun from spider silk. Shigeyoshi Osaki at Nara Medical University in Japan ...