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 ...

It is a house of music. The three daughters in the family play violin. The mother is a violin maker who creates her magic in a shop in back of the house Up to six hours a day, the beautiful sounds of ...

The violin made of ivory remains a testimony to the collaboration between the Western and Carnatic music. A visitor to the ancient house of the Thanjavur Quartet — Chinnaya, Ponnaiya, Sivanandam and ...

Charlotte would be proud. A Japanese researcher has spun thousands of strands of spider silk into a set of violin strings. The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" compared to ...