Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and ...

It's definitely a violin shop. And by violin shop, that refers to violin family instruments: violin, viola, cello." And she also has upright basses. "Put it this way," she said.

To many, these instruments would seem too holy to touch, much less play. Avshi Weinstein, a third-generation luthier whose family started and still maintains the Violins of Hope collection, disagrees.

The family tradition of violin making began with Paul's great great grandfather, Herman Macklett, who started making violins in the mid-1800s in Chicago.

In a low-income, rural school district, one superintendent decided to get creative to keep music education alive and ...

For the first time, Violins of Hope, which features restored violins owned by Jewish musicians before and during the ...