Ryan Hesketh of Carbondale grew up playing a Guarneri violin his father played in the symphony. The violin had a "horrible sound," Hesketh said, but after using the same violin to play as an adult ...

Every family has an heirloom. It might be a watch, a book, or a stuffed pet. [Mike’s] family heirloom was an antique violin. Well, not an entire violin. This particular violin consisted of a detached ...

India has produced many an eminent violinist. Music lovers around the world throng the country to learn playing the instrument from the ace players themselves. However, the musicians from India fly ...

Chennai: The violin gathered immense popularity in southern India over a span of two centuries. Despite its Colonial origins, the violin has become an integral part of Carnatic music and the music ...

CHICAGO — For two decades, a father and son duo have quietly collected and repaired over 70 violins used by victims and survivors of the Holocaust. “I opened the violin,” Amnon Weinstein said, ...

This Margazhi season, concert violins might sound a little different and better, all thanks to the violin restoration training being held under the auspices of the Lalgudi Trust by professional violin ...

As a boy, Al Schahn knew that the handmade violins his “papa” created made a distinct sound. Now 88 years old, Schahn began patiently restoring musical instruments last year and has since refurbished ...

Although I have often relished the tender melody of the violin, it wasn’t until I met Mathias Menanteau that I realized the endless passion and mastery necessary for its creation. Sign up here. French ...

Wesley Rule, a native Tennessean, has an organ maker, cabinet maker and piano repairman in his family. After watching a luthier repair his donated violin, Rule attended a violin-making school in Salt ...

In an episode of The Repair Shop, a guest called Natalie brought expert John Dilworth her father’s violin that spent World War Two in an Auschwitz concentration camp, in the hopes he could restore it ...