Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an ...

A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

There is no question that violin-making is an art form. It requires a musician's ear, a craftsperson's skill, and a historian ...

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 ...

MIT researchers have developed a detailed physics-based simulation of a 1715 Titian Stradivarius violin, enabling luthiers to test design changes before crafting an instrument. Built from CT scans and ...

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 ...