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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 ...

An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same feel as ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic. By Joshua Barone ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...

We all know what a violin is, but what about a 10-string double violin? Gingger Shankar says that it covers all the ranges offered by the double bass, cello, viola and violin. The grand niece of ...

Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen gives us all a lesson in how to recover an unexpected instrument mishap without missing a beat. While performing Tchaikovsky’s majestic Violin Concerto with the ...

A Japanese researcher has used thousands of strands of spider silk to spin a set of violin strings. The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" relative to traditional gut or steel ...