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A team of physicists from a British university used nanotechnology to create what they dubbed "the world's smallest violin," ...
At the Library of Congress last month, Roberto Díaz was playing on an exceedingly rare viola. What didn’t cross his mind, he ...
(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 ...
it is important to understand the nature of the antique stringed instrument business. It is a rather close-knit industry with many family-run shops like ours,” David Brobst, one of the violin ...
The museum’s permanent collection is jovial — a portrait of an In-N-Out-style cheeseburger welcomes visitors to the main ...
A poignant reminder of the Jewish musicians who played before, during and after the Holocaust has arrived in Orange County, along with 60 of the stringed instruments they played.
At its Commencement Ceremony on May 16, Minnesota State College Southeast presented its 2025 Outstanding Alumni Award for the Red Wing campus to Brian Christianson, who graduated from the college's ...
A single violin takes about 300 hours to ... recently received a custom-made cello, continuing a family tradition of music-making. “Every instrument is unique, and when I also got to have ...
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 ...
During that time, Gutierrez alleged, Saldana saw the violin unattended and walked out with the instrument and its ... eventually identified him and his family’s home. Though he no longer lived ...
Alvarez, who has been accused of failing to pay out proceeds from consignment sales to instrument owners ... when he first came in and saw a violin his family couldn’t afford, Kolstein said.