Daniel Stepner, professor of the practice of music at Brandeis and longtime first violinist in the Lydian String Quartet, plays a “modern” violin crafted in 1727. And a “period” instrument made by the ...

As Stradivari historian Toby Faber writes for Sotheby’s, Stradivarius violins have “no modern equivalents.” Continuously coveted and played for over three centuries, “they are without ...

Modern acoustics is making it possible to account for the exquisite performance of the violins made by the Italian masters. The result promise a further evolution in the instruments of the violin ...

As Chicago Police Mass Transit detectives ask people to look out for the violin, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago student to whom it belongs is quite upset. Cyrus Spurlock said he was ...

A Milanese 1694 Giovanni Grancino violin was recovered after having been stolen from USC on April 2, authorities say. Detectives say the instrument appeared unharmed and the suspect was charged wi ...

He hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances. Musical instruments were crafted, present and found in concentration camps across Central and Eastern Europe during World ...