Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

We’ve seen 3D-printed violins before, but they used an electric pickup to amplify the sound of the resonating strings. Using a newly formulated white resin, Formlabs instead 3D-printed an acoustic ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Over the past quarter-century, the Australian label Eloquence has been issuing beautiful and copious multidisc sets devoted to mid-20th-century musicians who spent much—usually most—of their careers ...

Spiders might soon give you goosebumps in a good way. Strands of spider silk have been used to make violin strings that have a unique and thrilling sound, thanks perhaps to the way the strands deform ...

In a former fruit packing shed, halfway up Orange's Mt Canobolas, amber liquid simmers and splutters in saucepans. Violinist-turned-inventor Andrew Baker, his wife Emma, and their tiny team are ...

You’ve never heard violin like this! Dixon’s Violin - is bringing his one-of-a-kind, transformational performance to the Warren Community Center on October 26th. A former technology leader and ...

Japanese artisans have dedicated their glass-blowing skills to a life-like instrument that sounds akin to its wooden cousin. Japanese glassblowers have turned their chops to replicating the string ...