Which violin tuner IS best? Tuning a violin is much the same as tuning any stringed instrument, with the notes ascending in perfect fifths as G, D, A and E, the latter being the highest in pitch. An ...

Playing on an instrument that is highly prone to losing its pitch, we string players must tune our violins, violas, cellos ...

Life-or-death matters are handled with compelling gravity in Francisco Vargas’ “The Violin,” one of the most powerful movies screened at last year’s Seattle International Film Festival. Back for a ...

A melody penned centuries ago by Johann Sebastian Bach wafted over the front steps of the Transit police headquarters in Boston yesterday morning after a “priceless” 162-year-old violin was returned ...

No one was more surprised than I was when I started work on a novel and it came out in the form of a crooked Métis fiddle tune. I always thought I’d been born without the music, that this ancestral ...

The Ten Pound Fiddle, a folk music organization in Lansing, Michigan, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The organization's longevity is attributed to its dedicated volunteers, strong financial ...

Back and forth, their bows glide across violin strings; hands noodle over fingerboards. But for all the effort, the students can't quite keep the rhythm. "I can tell we've had two weeks off. That was ...

Celebrate the legacy of John Hartford—the prolific songwriter and river poet whose music helped ignite the newgrass movement—on his birthday.

Working in the shadow of the great masters, the violin-makers of Italy's Cremona are valiantly fighting a shrinking market and foreign competition as they seek perfection, one violin at a time. The ...

Cremona, birthplace of Stradivarius, is today a veritable laboratory for luthiers from all over the world, and violin making workshops are everywhere AFP / Miguel MEDINA Working in the shadow of the ...