The bow debuted in the hands of the concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec; an orchestra that lost its guest conductor to cancer last year. A cancer patient in Canada made an incredibly ...

[Bithead942]’s ten-year-old niece is a huge Star Wars fan, and also a violinist. Which of course has led her to learn to play some of the music from the film franchise, and then to ask her uncle to ...

Bow Production I will make a bow where the violin body is made. What to use is a toothpick made of bamboo. Fold the tip halfway, fix the angle by attaching adhesive in a state that it was made a ...

All you need is a synthesiser, a violin bow and this MacBook Bow (pun credit goes to Koka the violinist) – and BAM, you’ve got yourself a cheap-ish violin. Koka is a musician, who really wanted to ...

Watching Yasuoki Tanaka work is like stepping back in time. Surrounded by hand tools and little vials of resin-colored liquids in the workshop at his Columbia home, he combs out strands of thick, ...