The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects ...

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The Violins of Hope reveal themselves as many antiques do. Sometimes people move house, or clean out attics or basements, or ...

The instrument, made by Aberdeen luthier Robert Duncan in 1756, was donated to the University of Aberdeen’s Special Collections as part of ...

Jacob (Absam, Austria, c. 1617-83) is the earliest and most important Austrian violin maker whose model influenced violin making in Germany, parts of Italy and several other countries. It is not known ...

Nazis pounded on the door and confiscated the treasured violin, throwing it onto a flatbed truck, breaking its string, and ...

How about some violin? Sure, it's most often considered an orchestral instrument, and doesn't exactly emit the gritty, sexy type of sound rock bands are typically looking for. But the violin is ...

Explore our selection of the best violin concertos featuring the greatest works by composers including Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. Written in 1880, Saint-Saëns’s violin concerto ...

He began his violin-making career around the age of 12, producing his first decent instrument in 1660 when he was 16-years-old. He quickly became recognized as a high-quality luthier. Stradivari ...

A conversation with Peter Boardman, Master Violin Luthier A conversation with Master Violin Luthier, Peter Boardman, and a demonstration of the instruments he has crafted. Cara Murphy, Silversmith; ...

In the 1980s, an Auschwitz survivor brought his damaged violin to the Tel Aviv workshop of Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein. That encounter planted the seed for Violins of Hope, Weinstein’s ...