WELCOMING TO ALL KIDS. A 300 YEAR OLD VIOLIN WITH LOCAL TIES WAS AUCTIONED OFF FOR SOME PRETTY BIG BUCKS. TODAY, 300 YEARS OLD, AND WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR HOW MUCH IT WENT FOR. BUT FIRST, NEWSCENTER 5 ...

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an ...

The violin has been called the ‘da Vinci’ for some time, but is called ‘da Vinci, Ex-Seidel’ since Toscha Seidel parted ways with it. Credit: Courtesy Tarisio If you have ever heard The Wizard of Oz’s ...

Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham Cockerham’s fretless banjo is also in the collection of the National Museum of American History In an on-going series, ATM will bring you the occasional post from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Xiong / EyeEm / Getty Images Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You ...

SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by We asked Hilary Hahn, John Adams, André Rieu and others to pick the music that moves them. Listen to their choices. In the past, we’ve asked some of ...

Christoph Koncz has used gut-stringed baroque instrument to record Mozart’s violin concertos When he first dared ask the keepers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin if he might be allowed to try it ...

Did you know that at age five, John Lesaca was enrolled at the UP Conservatory of Music and that was when he began playing the violin? Asked how he got interested in music so early, John told Funfare ...