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The violin as we know it today dates back to 16th-century northern Italy. The region spawned dynasties of violin makers, whose names are still synonymous with quality: Giuseppe Guarnari, Antonio ...

CHICO — While Bob Scoville was busy running his own insurance company in Marin County, he discovered what he really wanted to do. He had inherited from his father a violin, a family heirloom, and it ...

For 500 years, violin-makers have crafted their instruments by hand. But for the past three years, three Minnesotans have been crafting them with the help of a CT scanner and computer-aided machine.

The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the Holocaust, is coming to the West Coast. “The Violin Maker” will have its ...

Sam Zygmuntowicz, a 40-something Brooklynite and the center of John Marchese’s nonfiction book “The Violin Maker,” has been asking questions about the centuries-old craft of violin-making. Those ...

whose violins and violas are played by members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and other performers around the region, has won a silver medal for best tone at the Violin Society of America ...

HAVANA (AP) – In a light-filled workshop cluttered with tools and pieces of old string instruments, three men carve strips of imported wood and silently measure the angles of violin pegs and viola ...

“I want to show you what I’ve been working on,” Ryan Soltis says as we tromp through ice-crusted snow toward his sleeping garden. He opens a large gate, and we make our way around what appears to be a ...

SELANGOR, Malaysia (AP) — Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate strokes. The work is meditative, out of the ...