Stradivarius is loved by musicians and collectors as a historical masterpiece of the violin, and can cost as much as hundreds of millions of yen. Scientific analysis of Stradivarius and Guarneri, ...

Earlier this week, we brought you the story of a radiologist and two violin-makers, who used computed tomography (CT) imaging to create a copy of a 1704 Stradivarius violin. The instrument that they ...

One day they’ll make beautiful music, but for the moment the slabs of mahogany, spruce and maple that Martin Brunkalla will fashion into violins are neatly stacked in his Marengo workshop. The only ...

In the Jura mountains between France and Switzerland, there are men who can look at a tree and tell you if there's a violin inside. Stradivarius violins come from this spruce wood in the Risoud forest ...

The world's violins are mostly made of spruce and maple tonewood, trees grown in the northern hemisphere. But what if indigenous African woods from the southern hemisphere were used to create an ...

Listen closely enough as you walk through one fabled Italian forest, and you might just imagine you're hearing music. Seth Doane has sent us a Postcard from the Dolomites: The stunning beauty of the ...

The African violin was played by various musicians on separate occasions, and all agreed that its sound is quite different from that of most other violins. Tonewoods are wood species that possess ...