BLOOMINGTONIt all started at a public school in Minnesota, when 10-year-old Harold Evans picked up his first violin and fell in love.Thanks to a "good program and a good teacher," he quickly excelled ...

New owner of Quinn's Music Budd Greenman talks as he works on an 1827 Neapoli-built fiddle, originally built by Joanes ...

It’s a workshop on violins, but the venue resembles a mechanic’s workshop. In a small room at maestro Lalgudi Jayaraman’s house in T. Nagar, California-based violin-maker James Wimmer is demonstrating ...

RED WING, Minn.—With a small saw, hunched over his woodworking bench, Mike Burns cut a tiny wedge from a block of maple wood about the size of a Tic Tac. The wedge will go into what’s called a frog.

CHICO — While Bob Scoville was busy running his own insurance company in Marin County, he discovered what he really wanted to do. He had inherited from his father a violin, a family heirloom, and it ...

A soloist falls on his rare 18th Century violin. But how can it be repaired so it sounds the same? To drop a much-loved instrument is accident enough. But when it is a violin worth a cool million - ...

Cambridge Violin is on the second floor of 50 JFK St., across from Staples and Shake Shack and above Amorino. A display case at street level bears a sign with peeling letters that says “VIOLINS VIOLAS ...

Down the block from the iconic Cain’s Ballroom and next to the Vanguard sits one of Tulsa’s lesser-known musical landmarks. For the past 22 years, the Tulsa Violin Shop has been a constant in the ever ...

A month ago, Lee Siggers bought a violin repair shop in his home city of Fort Worth from a woman who was dying of cancer. Last week the retired Navy officer traveled 1,400 miles to Thousand Oaks to ...