The art and craft of violin making. He scrapes it, gouges it, and sands it. He bends it, carves it, and colors it. Above all, he listens to it. (Violins playing) At 43, Zygmuntowicz is a leading maker ...

Hey, if you don't knock off the fighting, we'll have to turn the car around and go home. We're on our way to Classic Bows in Golden Hill to check out this question with owner Gregory Gohde. Can we ...

Watching Yasuoki Tanaka work is like stepping back in time. Surrounded by hand tools and little vials of resin-colored liquids in the workshop at his Columbia home, he combs out strands of thick, ...

[Bithead942]’s ten-year-old niece is a huge Star Wars fan, and also a violinist. Which of course has led her to learn to play some of the music from the film franchise, and then to ask her uncle to ...

Vadim Gluzman uses a bow once used by Eugène Ysaÿe and Henryk Szeryng."; Most of us will not get past the first part of that headline, thinking, "Oh, another story about a multi-million dollar violin ...

Among the 23 recipients of the MacArthur "genius" grants this past week: an economist, a mathematician, a photographer, a neuroscientist, and a Boston-based stringed instrument bow maker. Benoit ...

What began as a hobby -- and a way to provide inexpensive learning opportunities for his children -- would grow over the years into an obsessive pursuit for the perfect sound, bringing international ...

Bow Production I will make a bow where the violin body is made. What to use is a toothpick made of bamboo. Fold the tip halfway, fix the angle by attaching adhesive in a state that it was made a ...

Introduction / Charles Beare -- The violin in Tudor and Stuart England / Peter Holman -- Tree ring analysis applied to English instruments / John Topham -- Scottish violin making : myth and reality / ...

ROSALIA – A world-class performance takes place every day in a sprawling old house in tiny Rosalia. Morgan Andersen takes raw hunks of pernambuco wood, ebony and ivory, and meticulously turns out ...