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Strengthen your fourth finger with this simple violin exercise. Follow along with the sheet music and improve your technique!

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 ...

Sitting in the WIRED office this morning was none other than this: a fully operational 3D-printed replica of a Stradivarius violin (because regular violin production methods are so 2008). The ...

If violin hands could speak, Oh the stories they Would tell Of coldness and composers Vibrato and pain In these hands memory of The contours of a violin lingers Nails short, Fingertips calloused and ...

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 ...

If you can't afford it, or just can't find it — make it; motto of Sam Goodall. The violinist had long wanted a five-string fiddle, "I joked I had C-string envy," she says. But under the tutelage of ...

"I just set out to write this musical about Einstein," says Dr Wingfield, 63, a composer and director of studies in music at ...

NORWALK -- For this weekend's performance, Norwalk's Lumina String Quartet will present a program spanning hundreds of years. Quartet music from Beethoven and Shostakovich will join Duke Ellington ...