The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

(WATE) — A violin that once belonged to a 12-year-old boy who saw his family murdered is now on ... the darkest chapters of human history. These instruments belonged to Jews in the Holocaust ...

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 ...

As a rule those instruments which are of the simplest construction, are the most perfect in tone, and at the same time most difficult to play; as examples we may mention the violin family ...

JB Violins is tucked into a small building off Alley 38, just south of West Bonita Avenue in Claremont. One might expect its ...

The result promise a further evolution in the instruments of the violin family Modern acoustics is making it possible to account for the exquisite performance of the violins made by the Italian ...

With expertise founded in the making and restoration of string instruments, Kerry Keane has been involved in the musical-instrument trade for more than 30 years. He began his career in 1973 with ...

Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of the violin family, between the violin (which is tuned ... Its role as a supporting instrument began to change, with composers beginning ...