Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ANDY ARONOWICZ: Hi, I'm Andy. I'm a musician. I write and play music. ANNA FOONG: And I'm Anna. I'm a ...

The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Holding a violin, using a bow and plucking strings are some of the basic foundational skills when learning how to play the instrument — and it’s an experience being brought to ...

San Francisco police have cracked the case of the vanishing violins. Over the past few months, investigators say, a San Francisco man ordered at least three handcrafted violins -- worth as much as $25 ...

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The first known instance of a composer ordering up plucking violins came just three years later. To musician and NPR cultural commentator Miles Hoffman, ...

Article from the Houston Chronicle: On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. If you have ever been to a ...

Celebration School will open its doors next year to violin, cello and guitar players by offering Osceola County’s first program for high-school string musicians. String players from other high schools ...

This is the sixth ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of instrument ...

What’s nearly 12 feet tall, made of wood, and capable of producing a sound so low that most human beings can’t even hear it? That would be the octobass, the largest string instrument ever brought into ...