MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Some valuable and fragile instruments had to be carefully moved through downtown Minneapolis Wednesday. The Claire Givens Violin shop is being forced out of its long-time location ...

Violin maestro Annavarapu Ramaswamy receives the Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar International Award at Chennai's music festival.

The Chicago-based Rachel Barton Pine Foundation has acquired a historic Stradivarius violin dating from 1732. The instrument, known to rare violin fanciers as the “Arkwright Lady Rebecca Sylvan” ...

YORK — The 40 violins headed to Waller Mill Elementary this fall won’t be brown or even wooden. They’ll be purple and yellow — the school’s colors — and made of a bioplastic material derived from ...

On a work trip in Upstate New York last May, Latif Nasser got an unexpected request from a colleague: “Can you hand-deliver an antique violin across the country?” It was an odd favor, but then Nasser ...

Sixth-grader Hanna Thomas sometimes has trouble finding the right words, but playing the violin brings her peace.“It’s really relaxing, and you can forget about what all happened,” Hanna said. “You ...

Among violinists, the instruments built in the 1600s and 1700s by the Stradivari and Guarneri families are legendary. But a new study suggests the reputation of these old violins owes more to myth ...