Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

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 other ...

A Lithuanian actor and musician has his hair turned into violin strings while still attached to his head in this amazing video. Actor and musician Andrius Mamontovas has a lot of hair: Mamontovas is a ...

When Tadas Maksimovas decided to part with his waist-length hair, he knew that he wanted to do something out of the ordinary with it. After growing it a decade - and becoming quite attached to his ...

A Japanese researcher has used thousands of strands of spider silk to spin a set of violin strings. The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" relative to traditional gut or steel ...

It all started with a quote from Japanese violinist Shin’ichi Suzuki. “I want to make good citizens. If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth and learns to play it himself, he develops ...

Paul Chou places the violin under his chin, and soon the bow is flitting over the strings at the speed of dragonfly wings. A snatch of melody from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” emerges. Then, some ol’-time ...