Owning a Stradivarius immediately puts a violinist into one of the world's most exclusive clubs. Either you're rich enough to own one, which as a musician is an accomplishment in itself, or you've won ...

Several years ago, Stephanie Culp Smith received an old violin that had belonged to her late grandfather when he was a boy. Smith's mother had discovered the instrument while cleaning out the man's ...

After spending two and half hours playing around on the different instruments, six out of the ten musicians chose one of the modern violins for the hypothetical tour—and only three picked a ...

The violin's unusual story involves musicians, police, the FBI and an appraiser. — -- A centuries-old "Ames" Stradivarius violin that was stolen from the late renowned violinist Roman Totenberg ...

On the first day of 1879, Joseph Joachim, the virtuosic Hungarian violinist, took to the stage in Leipzig and premiered Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D Major, the only such work the German ...

Stradivarius violins are so important that they come with their own biographies. Several hundred of them survive today, and they're so prized, you can trace their lineages through the musicians who ...

According to violinists, nothing sounds quite like a Stradivarius. With only a few hundred of the master craftsman's instruments in circulation, violin makers have been trying for centuries to ...

In the medieval Italian city that gave the world the famed Stradivarius violin, Bill Whitaker finds artisans still at work trying to replicate the precious sound of the million-dollar instrument known ...

This week, a violin made by famed Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari could become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold at auction. Sotheby's is estimating that a Stradivarius made in 1714 ...

A Stradivarius violin made at the "pinnacle" of Antonio Stradivari’s career sold at auction for an eye-popping price this week. The musical instrument, crafted in 1714 by Stradivari, the luthier most ...

Zara-labelled products are on sale in Russia despite the insistence of the brand’s Spanish owner Inditex that it has left the ...

He is dying, Q-tip elbows poking through a baggy shirt. Friends visit, spooning him ice cream and playing music. His daughters are around as well, stopping in after school, too young to process the ...