French researchers have busted a common myth that the tonal qualities of a real Stradivarius can not be matched by any other instrument in the world. A new study ...

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A soggy wooden board carpeted in soft white fungi doesn't look like much, but in the right hands it can become a world class violin. According to a recent sound test before about 180 people, two fungi ...

WASHINGTON – A Stradivarius missing since it was stolen from violin virtuoso Roman Totenberg following a 1980 concert in Boston resurfaced in New York, where an unidentified woman took it to be ...

A piece of wood hewn from an Alpine fir is among the evidence that has led a renowned collector and authority on rare instruments to be labelled a con man, suspected of masterminding the world's ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. It was a cold case for more than three decades - a cold violin case - but now it has been closed. A Stradivarius violin that ...

CANYONVILLE (AP) - For decades, a worn violin lay forgotten inside a worn case in an attic at the Pioneer-Indian Museum. The latches on the black case were stuck. Museum volunteers were unable to free ...