NEW YORK (AP) — A violin made by the famed Antonio Stradivari in 1714 has the potential to become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold when it goes up for auction on Friday at Sotheby's in ...

Lowell Hohstadt and his wife Kathy greet their audience during a recent recital at Music City Mall. (Courtesy Photo) Opening the Dulce School of Music after 30 years as music minister at Odessa ...

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...

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 ...

You might say these instruments are money to the ears of savvy collectors and investors. Musical instruments can be valuable assets: guitars can sell for hundreds and thousands of dollars; violins in ...

Samuel Staples, a fresh-faced 20-year-old from London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama, appears nonchalant. His black leather jacket is off and he’s raring to go. His excitement is palpable. He’s ...

WELCOMING TO ALL KIDS. A 300 YEAR OLD VIOLIN WITH LOCAL TIES WAS AUCTIONED OFF FOR SOME PRETTY BIG BUCKS. TODAY, 300 YEARS OLD, AND WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR HOW MUCH IT WENT FOR. BUT FIRST, NEWSCENTER 5 ...

What is likely the oldest man-made object in Alaska still able to fully perform the purpose for which is was built hangs in a shop in Fairview, a meticulous assemblage of dark wood a little more than ...

This video of Laurent Bernadac, an engineer and lifelong musician, playing the violin looks and sounds very little like a person playing the violin. For one thing, he’s also using a looper and effects ...

Belgian violinist Maya Levy has claimed that budget airline Transavia refused to let her board a flight after she declined to place her 18th-century violin in the aircraft hold. Levy said she was due ...