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 ...

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of a wide-ranging photographic survey of rare stringed musical instruments and bows. Many of these photographs were made ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Violins of Hope is a collection of 70 restored string instruments that were played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. They've traveled the world, and next month ...

The duo Black Violin is known for mixing classical string instruments with hip-hop beats, creating a unique sound that has ...

Instruments of "violin genus" such as violin, viola, cello and contrabass are traditionally opened in the opening of the letter "F" on the body surface of the instrumentF HoleTo be holding. The shape ...

Diedra Lukoff went to the Hilbert Art Museum in Orange last week for lack of any other plans on a sweltering afternoon. She expected a good time, a respite from the heat amid the gallery’s cheerful ...

Jeff Reider runs the cello bow slowly over a clean-burning flame, fine hairs from a Mongolian stallion cinching together in a taught line under his watchful eye. “There’s a fine line between cinching ...