Unbeknownst to Ray Suen, musical director for David Byrne, the Twin Cities was the perfect place to break his beloved five-string violin. Ahead of Byrne's two "Who Is The Sky?" shows in Minneapolis, ...

Spider silk is turning out to be a remarkably versatile material. Aside from having a higher heat conductivity than any other organic matter and proteins for inserting genes into cells, strings from a ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

Past winners and laureates of the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition include Ginette Neveu, Ida Haendel, David and Igor Oistrakh, Keiko Urushihara, Piotr Janowski, Alena Baeva, Agata ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...

An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same feel as ...