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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the ...

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 ...