Tan Chin Seng is Malaysia's first professional violin luthier, or maker of string instruments like violins, cellos and ...

How can so small an animal make such a deep sound? ... The same rule applies to musical instruments: A large double bass can produce lower notes than a small violin does, for example.

"An instrument to a musician is way more than an object, it's more of a companion," says classical violinist David Lopez Ibanez, whose 18th Century violin was stolen in February. The instrument, which ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...