While a violin and a fiddle are structurally the same instrument, a fiddle is its own entity—one that's grounded in its ...

the last great artisan in that family, died in 1684, leaving an opening in the growing market for Cremonese violins. Stradivari’s instruments became so coveted that he received commissions from ...

One of the instruments on the stage belonged to a man who helped save the lives of more than a dozen family members during the Holocaust. He got the violin restored in order to play at his ...