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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The craftsmanship says “fine musical instrument.” The jovial atmosphere says “fiddle.” As luthiers Steve Thomas and Gary Vessel work in their downtown Modesto shop, Thomas & Vessel Stringed ...

What he does: Owns Hosmer Violins at 7101 E. Genesee St. in the town of Manlius. He sells and repairs violins, violas and cellos. Family: He and his wife, Maria; two adult daughters. What's new: After ...

Facing volatile equity markets, investors often look to gold and silver. But an updated study of classical-instrument valuations by Brandeis economist Kathryn Graddy shows that violins may be among ...