As Guillermo del Toro's go-to composer, Alexandre Desplat knew about the filmmaker's desire to tell his version of Mary ...

Which violin tuner IS best? Tuning a violin is much the same as tuning any stringed instrument, with the notes ascending in perfect fifths as G, D, A and E, the latter being the highest in pitch. An ...

A good violin depends on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of th Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science ...

Have you ever wondered what makes an old Italian violin sound so special? For centuries, musicians and scientists have puzzled over the unique qualities of instruments made by masters like Antonio ...

One little trick and BAM, you’ve got yourself a brand-new string instrument. Violinist Esther Abrami has come up with a brilliant trick to make a violin sound like a cello: and literally all you have ...

They’ve spent the last 15 years breaking stereotypes with their genre-busting songs and instrumentals. Now, Black Violin is adding a heavy dose of full-out inspiration to the mix. That mix is embodied ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. OK, myself, I'm originally French, so I'm from the French Alps, south of France. And when I was 15, I ...

Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen set up TwoSet Violin to show how classical music can be fun, and to attract the young to it. Violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen are joking that if they ...