The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

Vadim Gluzman uses a bow once used by Eugène Ysaÿe and Henryk Szeryng."; Most of us will not get past the first part of that headline, thinking, "Oh, another story about a multi-million dollar violin ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

Watching Yasuoki Tanaka work is like stepping back in time. Surrounded by hand tools and little vials of resin-colored liquids in the workshop at his Columbia home, he combs out strands of thick, ...

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 sounds of strings are in the air as 81 youngsters are learning to play the violin. The students of Jump Start Strings, a collaboration of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Communities In ...

THE sound of a violin bow across strings can be exquisite. But bowing well is hard to master. Now that smooth grace is encapsulated in a new kind of electronic instrument. Developed by Dylan Menzies ...