A nearly 300-year-old Stradivarius violin that belonged to American copper mining heiress Huguette M. Clark is up for auction in New York City. A nearly 300-year-old Stradivarius violin found in the ...

We hear a performance on a 1724 Stradivarius and speak with one of the world’s foremost experts on rare instruments, in town for TMF. 600 – Roughly the number of Stradivarius violins remaining in the ...

A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft some of his most renowned instruments.

This week, a violin made by famed Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari could become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold at auction. Sotheby's is estimating that a Stradivarius made in 1714 ...

It’s not what you play, but how you play it. It’s not the story, but how you tell it. On Thursday, at 6 p.m., San Diego Symphony Concertmaster Jeff Thayer will tell a story featuring a Stradivarius ...

Note: This episode originally aired in May, 2014. Violins and violas are like living, breathing things. Many are hand-crafted with wood from a tree. Each one is different. And you know the story – ...

In Cremona, the Italian city that gave birth to some of the finest violins ever made, residents are being told to be as quiet as possible, because of an ambitious project to preserve the sounds of ...

If you have a trained ear-or just a strong sense of music and tone-it's easy to hear the difference between a cheap instrument and a well-made model built to resonate across the world's greatest ...

Mr. Cello – plus a decorated Stradivarius viola and two Strad violins – traveled to Willard Airport on a Falcon 2000 jet owned by Sheila Johnson, a 1970 alumna of the University of Illinois School of ...

"I really could hardly believe it at the time," Nina Totenberg, the legal affairs correspondent for NPR, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. "I said, 'I have to call my sisters. I'll ...

There was an age discrepancy when Iryna Krechkovsky fell in love with an instrument. From the moment she played the first few notes, the 30-year-old Ukrainian-born, Irvine concert violinist fell hard ...