Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an ...

There is no question that violin-making is an art form. It requires a musician's ear, a craftsperson's skill, and a historian ...

If you can't afford it, or just can't find it — make it; motto of Sam Goodall. The violinist had long wanted a five-string fiddle, "I joked I had C-string envy," she says. But under the tutelage of ...

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 ...

At Geoffrey J. Seitz, Violinmaker, the eponymous violin shop in Holly Hills, string instruments crowd every corner. This is no carefully curated showroom. It’s more like a teenager’s bedroom, ...