One little trick and BAM, you’ve got yourself a brand-new string instrument. Violinist Esther Abrami has come up with a brilliant trick to make a violin sound like a cello: and literally all you have ...

The violin, which weighs over 130 kilograms, is playable. But unlike your standard-size instrument, it takes three people to play it due to its dimensions: two on each end of the 5.22-metre bow, and ...

But it is the violin strings that bind them together. Samantha practices six hours a day and Katlyn and Megan practice two. They started playing at the ages of 2, 4, and 8.

Composer and violinist Jon Rose questions if a violin is worth millions of dollars and asks if the quality of sound warrants this type of price tag.

When notes are played on the strings, the vibrations resonate through the three main strands and into the hollow body, creating sound.

Have you ever wondered what makes an old Italian violin sound so special? For centuries, musicians and scientists have puzzled over the unique qualities of instruments made by masters like Antonio ...

At Geoffrey J. Seitz, Violinmaker, the eponymous violin shop in Holly Hills, string instruments crowd every corner. This is no carefully curated showroom.