Blue Bird Inn is being restored as a community venue with live music, events and a Detroit music archive preserving the ...

While other Florida shops sell and repair classical instruments, few can boast of the quality and extensive stock that Miami ...

A longtime building along Highway 100 in Bowdon is getting ready for a completely new chapter as Bristol Station Antiques ...

MIT BUILT A STRADIVARIUS THAT HAS NEVER EXISTED, AND THEN MADE IT PLAY BACH There is a violin at MIT that weighs nothing. It has no wood in it, no varnish, no label glued inside the back, no three ...

Rare Kelly Wood Slasher hewing axe from the 1900s. Restoration used Evaporust, sandblasting, and wire wheeling while retaining the natural pitting from years of rust. New handle crafted from curly ...

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Richard Hall sits tapping his foot and plucking a banjo in the front window of his music store on the main street of South Gippsland's Korumburra. Out the back is his workshop — a warm space covered ...

Andy Parish says he would give up the skill of making violins in exchange for being able to play one "in a heartbeat" A luthier said he has broken away from tradition to make violins out of disused ...

An early 19th-century French Mirecourt violin, from the private collection of the family of Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet W. B. Yeats, will be offered for sale at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on July ...

A new tree-ring study solves the mystery of where the famed instrument-maker Anton Stradivari sourced timber for his violins during his “golden age.” A French chemist inspects a Stradivarius violin at ...

Many of the recovered violins in the Violins of Hope collection feature Star of David inlays, pictured here at the Capp Center in St. Paul on May 6. On a May evening in St. Paul, Israeli violinmaker ...

The Dalles, Ore., April 28, 2026 — A century-old violin that sat silent for decades has found its voice again in The Dalles, thanks to local musician Jeremy Clawson. Jeremy restored the instrument ...