What: A fascinating video that demonstrates the difference in sound quality between an extremely affordable violin, and one that costs as much as beachfront property. Who: YouTube violinist Rob Landes ...

Violin makers routinely finish their instruments with a thick coat of varnish, the better to protect and preserve the wood. Now Swiss scientists claim that this varnish also plays a role in the ...

Can you distinguish between a real violin and MIDI strings? Rob Landes and Aaron Edson put your ears to the test! See if you can hear the difference in this fun sound challenge.

In the medieval Italian city that gave the world the famed Stradivarius violin, Bill Whitaker finds artisans still at work trying to replicate the precious sound of the million-dollar instrument known ...

How a violin’s f-holes are shaped can influence the instrument’s lowest notes. MIT scientists, along with a Boston-based violin maker, analyzed how air moves through a violin’s f-shaped holes and ...

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 ...

From Tchaikovsky to The Temptations, from Imagine Dragons to Johann Sebastian Bach, music masters Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus collaborate to bring audiences a rare glimpse of an evening of unusual, ...

Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...

This video of Laurent Bernadac, an engineer and lifelong musician, playing the violin looks and sounds very little like a person playing the violin. For one thing, he’s also using a looper and effects ...

102 de Falla, M.: Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" / Violin 103 Scriabin, A.: Nocturne, Op. 5 No. 1 / Violin 104 Prokofiev, S.: March from "The Love for Three Oranges" / Violin 105 Albeniz, I.: Song ...