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 ...

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 ...

Part four: The culmination of the early history of violin playing, 1700-1761. Introduction: the 'evolution of progress' theory, a summary view of the violin -- The violin and bow of the early ...