Violinist Nigel Kennedy has listed his viola for auction through Amati. The instrument is accompanied by a humorous note from ...

Up until the last installment, we looked at Antonio Stradivari and his workshop.Starting with this installment, I would like ...

The name "Stradivarius" is known as one of the most expensive violins in the world.A legendary masterpiece that can fetch prices of hundreds of millions, sometimes even billions of yen.The maker of ...

Malaysian luthiers Samuel Wong and Chang Song Jie have earned international recognition for their handcrafted violas.

Quattro rarissimi violini Stradivari e due Guarneri del Gesù, tra cui il celebre ''Cannone'' appartenuto a Paganini, suonati da fuoriclasse internazionali dello strumento sullo stesso palcoscenico per ...

The Violin Channel recently discussed the new Perpetual Cadenza Violin String Set with Mr Adrian Mueller, Technical Director of Pirastro in Offenbach, Germany. Noticeably easier to play, the set comes ...

Cremona Summer Festival e Museo del Violino dedicano due appuntamenti straordinari a Helen Brunner, violinista e pioniera del Metodo Suzuki in Europa: una presentazione didattica con giovani allievi e ...

In Salisbury, Md., an amateur in the audience gushed to Violist William Primrose: “Ah, you can’t get away from the old Italian instrument makers!” In South America, critics rhapsodized over the tones ...

Neatly pasted on the inside of an old violin newly discovered in somebody’s attic, many a musty label bearing such an inscription has caused hearts to beat faster. Most violins so discovered are fakes ...

As the curator of UC Berkeley’s Salz Collection of Stringed Instruments, Carla Shapreau traces the rich histories of treasured, centuries-old violins and connects them to the next generation of ...

Following in his brother’s footsteps, Joshua Brown picked up the violin at age two. He now plays a Nicolò Amati violin from 1635-40 on loan from the Mary B. Galvin Foundation and the efforts of the ...