The art and craft of violin making. He scrapes it, gouges it, and sands it. He bends it, carves it, and colors it. Above all, he listens to it. (Violins playing) At 43, Zygmuntowicz is a leading maker ...

Chances are the first violin you bought your child was factory made and inexpensive, which makes sense considering you don't know yet if they are going to like it. But if they love it and go on to ...

A West Texas man chipped away at the project for decades. When he died in 2018, the violin was still unfinished — a bunch of carefully crafted parts in a box. Robert Hunter wasn't famous. The man who ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The days of making your own instrument may be here soon. Engineering students at the University of Toledo are pioneering the idea, creating a violin using a 3D printer. "I never knew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘The degree programme at the Newark School of Violin Making will not be running this year, apparently because there were not ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The University of New Mexico is highlighting a one-of-a-kind course in violin making. Students from many different majors use hand tools over the course of four-to-six ...

For more than five decades, Paul Lindfors’ violin never made a sound. Once a treasure of his youth, the violin became little more than a showpiece when Lindfors gave up music to pursue athletic glory.

Gaspar welcomed us into the shop and, with the passion of a master craftsman, began to tell us about the art of violin making. The shop where he and Sibylle made their instruments, he said, was once ...

LEWISTON, N.Y. (WKBW-TV) — Mike Wrona's talent is making violins, not playing them. He says "Violin is a very difficult instrument to play. It's left many people broken and babbling by the side of the ...

Charlotte would be proud. A Japanese researcher has spun thousands of strands of spider silk into a set of violin strings. The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" compared to ...

Jenelle Steele was at a rest note in life’s score. A sculptor living in New York City, she was browsing through violins and cellos at a local shop one day. “I wasn’t happy with my career, and I was ...