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 ...

In 1993, Cal Meineke, a doctor with a talent for playing the violin, set out to solve a perplexing mystery: Why do some stringed instruments produce a heartbreakingly beautiful sound, while other ...

These familiar sound effects can all be made using four strings, a bow and a touch of musicianship. Check them out… Daniel Blair is a violinist who has amassed millions of YouTube views, thanks to his ...

The violinist Alfredo Campoli (1906-1991) has been all but forgotten in the U.S., but “Alfredo Campoli: The Bel Canto Violin,” a new 21-CD set that comprises all of his classical Decca ...

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.

By twisting thousands of strands together, a Japanese researcher has managed to form working violin strings from spider silk.

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