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.

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.

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.

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

According to experts and dealers, violins appear to be the most valuable investment of the fine instrument market.The growth value of fine instruments in the violin family has been consistent for ...

Keeping his family's tradition alive is important to Richard Maxham, 23, a fifth-generation violin maker whose family started crafting the instrument more than a century ago.

The institute also organised a day dedicated to the violin-family instruments on August 27. Al-Hamra is another place offering basic violin classes in Lahore.

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