When one thinks “violin,” the images that come to mind are the Stradivari and Guarneri instruments. When one thinks “violinist,” it is usually the superstar concert soloist – the Hilary Hahns, the ...

A string instrument "Cello" which is larger than the violin and slightly smaller than the contrabass is a musical instrument with four strings and bass echoes. A cello craftworker cut out timber, ...

Dendrochronologists, Paolo Cherubini with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Science outlining the use of ...

Beautiful music from a stringed instrument starts with good wood. Stringed-instrument maker John Kirk knows the tone a violin, viola or cello will have before he begins to carve it. He takes the ...

The lordly violin and its less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble. As today’s concert halls grow more cavernous, it becomes increasingly difficult for a solo violinist to ...

If you are planning to learn a new string instrument, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. With string instruments for beginners available in both Indian and western instruments, you ...