Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Artist Tadas Maskimovas used his own hair to string a violin in this surprising video. The hair is meticulously worked to form the right sized strings and then is glued together so it becomes more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Most are quick to link hip-hop to violence. Others are fast to link hip-hop to violins. In the latter camp is Miri Ben-Ari, who speaks hurriedly in her heavy ...

It all started with a quote from Japanese violinist Shin’ichi Suzuki. “I want to make good citizens. If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth and learns to play it himself, he develops ...

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...