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Eight decades after the 1709 violin known as the "Small Mendelssohn" disappeared, experts think they've located it in Japan ...
Workers at a small Canadian workshop are working long hours in a race against tariffs, ... 58, the company’s director. “If you play the violin, you know about it.
Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate ...
Malaysia’s first professional violin maker has earned many international accolades. Now, Tan Chin Seng is mentoring a new ...
Crammed into the tiny upstairs of the small Northwest Iowa County Museum in 1980 was a collection of rare and historic musical instruments.The instruments ranged from an ancient Egyptian harp that ...
Originally published in the Forverts, March 29 ,1911 A fiddle hangs on the wall, but the hand which played it is lying somewhere, a piece of coal. Among the 30 bodies in the morgue it has not been ...
I was in New York City recently and noticed there was a line out the door at the welfare office.That’s not unusual in these hard times. What was unusual, however, was that everyone in line ...