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 ...

Although I have often relished the tender melody of the violin, it wasn’t until I met Mathias Menanteau that I realized the endless passion and mastery necessary for its creation. Sign up here. French ...

Listen closely enough as you walk through one fabled Italian forest, and you might just imagine you're hearing music. Seth Doane has sent us a Postcard from the Dolomites: The stunning beauty of the ...

I'm working on the channel that sits right next to where the purfling will go on the instrument. I use a very small, narrow chisel because the grain is very tricky to work in this spot. It keeps ...

Remo del Tredici began making violins in his 70s. Inspired by his neighbor, a volunteer for AmVets, and the memory of his brother who was killed during WWII, he began giving away his violins to vets.

Peering into a shiny glass case suspended in an exhibit hall, four curious music lovers examine a violin, soft and warm in color with its delicately detailed scroll and wood grain marks iridescent in ...

It is one of the most erotic of instruments, central to Western classical music, and its finest examples can be hundreds of years old and worth… It is one of the most erotic of instruments, central to ...

Using a gouge, Nelle O'Neill shaves wood from a violin's plates in just the right amounts. With each curl of wood, the sound of the finished product will change. "The more wood removed, the lower the ...

A good violin depends on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of th Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science ...

‘The degree programme at the Newark School of Violin Making will not be running this year, apparently because there were not enough applicants.’Photograph: Scott Dumas/Alamy Your article on the sad ...