Although their bellies are made from a 1,000 year old piece of wood, the two violins, a viola and cello made in Orange in central-west New South Wales are nearly brand new and have almost never been ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – She played the violin. He was a tool and die maker. To show his love for her, he built a string quartet. Two violins, a viola and a cello. Esther Fulton and Marvin Mock ...

Virtuoso William Barton, renowned for bringing together First Nations culture and European classical music, reflects on heritage and the lifelong pull of the yidaki.

“There is so much beautiful folk music in China,” says Suli Xue, founder of Pacific Harmony String Quartet, which performs in Benaroya Hall Saturday. “But I don’t play those instruments.” The ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The secret for all musicians is to create the desired sound in the imagination before trying to do so with catgut and horsehair, or ...

Grażyna Bacewicz treated violin and other string instruments with a special attention, a consequence of her violin studies under Józef Jarzębski in Warsaw and under André Touret and Karl Flesch in ...

The Australian String Quartet has scored something of a coup in bringing together the world’s only known quartet of instruments by legendary Italian luthier Giovanni Guadagnini. The acquisition was ...