Retired Iowa State professor Paul Lasley spends most of his free time revamping violins that he donates to the instrument drive at Stephens Auditorium.

DIDN’T START UNTIL JUST BEFORE TEN. AND FOR YEARS IN OVERLAND PARK, MAN HAS BEEN GIVING NEW LIFE TO BROKEN INSTRUMENTS. HE REBUILDS THEM AND GIVES THEM TO KIDS IN NEED. BUT AS KMBC NINE’S ALAN SHOPE ...

Even if they don’t win an Oscar, they’ve already won a makeover. Surrounded by blocks of choking Los Angeles traffic, homeless encampments and garbage, a windowless warehouse encircled by a security ...

AMES, Iowa – Paul Lasley still remembers how he felt playing the only conspicuously silver-colored metal clarinet in the elementary school band. Lasley’s parents couldn’t afford an instrument when the ...

END. WHEN THE BOSTON POPS ENTERTAINED THE CROWD OUT ON THE ESPLANADE ON JULY 4TH, 2022, ONE MUSICIANS VIOLIN CAME FROM JUST ACROSS TOWN INSIDE THE NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL IN BOSTON’S NORTH END. THE ...

IOWA, USA ( Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Paul Lasley’s hobby of restoring old and broken violins and donating them to Iowa State University’s instrument collection program didn’t start with a violin of ...

“The Last Repair Shop” focuses on the people who maintain the 140,000 musical instruments owned by Los Angeles Unified School District public schools. Funding for music and arts education has been ...

One of the violins on display at the Violins of Hope exhibition in Milwaukee. Violins of Hope was founded by Amnon Weinstein, who grew up repairing instruments with his father, Moshe. Moshe was a ...

What he does: Owns Hosmer Violins at 7101 E. Genesee St. in the town of Manlius. He sells and repairs violins, violas and cellos. Family: He and his wife, Maria; two adult daughters. What's new: After ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren't on? No worries. They'd still have a job. The whole technological ...

AN ART ITSELF. >> WE FOUND STUDENTS LEARNING THAT ART RIGHT IN BOSTON’S NORTH END. WITH THE BOSTON POPS ENTERTAIN THE CROWD ON THE ESPLANADE ON JULY WORTH, 2022, ONE MUSICIAN’S VIOLIN CAME FROM JUST ...