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 ...

John Jordan’s garage is overflowing with the bodies of unfinished violins. Some look like tapered chunks of maple or redwood. Others are closer to completion: sticklike necks with one swooping curve ...

When Julian Gil Rodriguez’s E-string snapped during a concerto, he was a model of professionalism - and so was the first violin desk. It’s an occupational hazard and there’s always a chance it might ...

Not sure if your violin is in tune? Let’s fix that. This video gives you a clean, accurate audio reference for each of the 4 open violin strings: G, D, A, and E. #ViolinTuning #TunedViolin #HowToTuneA ...

At Geoffrey J. Seitz, Violinmaker, the eponymous violin shop in Holly Hills, string instruments crowd every corner. This is no carefully curated showroom. It’s more like a teenager’s bedroom, ...