A piece of wood hewn from an Alpine fir is among evidence that has led a renowned collector and authority on rare instruments to be labelled a con man, suspected of the world's biggest violin scam. In ...

Usually we associate 3D printing with ultramodern technologies like cutting-edge medical implants or futuristic space fabrics. Music technology researcher Harris Matzaridis’ ViolinoDigitale project ...

French researchers have busted a common myth that the tonal qualities of a real Stradivarius can not be matched by any other instrument in the world. A new study ...

Violinist Vadim Gluzman and his storied Stradivarius as seen from behind the glass in the CPR Performance Studio. I was bitterly disappointed. Violinist Vadim Gluzman came to Colorado Public Radio on ...

A piece of wood hewn from an Alpine fir is among the evidence that has led a renowned collector and authority on rare instruments to be labelled a con man, suspected of masterminding the world's ...

WASHINGTON – A Stradivarius missing since it was stolen from violin virtuoso Roman Totenberg following a 1980 concert in Boston resurfaced in New York, where an unidentified woman took it to be ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

This cold case hit all the right notes. More than three decades ago, in May 1980, violin virtuoso Roman Totenberg's Ames Stradivarius violin was stolen from his office at the Longy School of Music in ...

A soggy wooden board carpeted in soft white fungi doesn't look like much, but in the right hands it can become a world class violin. According to a recent sound test before about 180 people, two fungi ...