Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the spruce and maple for string instruments worthy of Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel.

Violinist Nicola Benedetti brings uplifting virtuosity and seductive romance to ‘café-appropriate’ arrangements for violin, guitar, accordion and cello.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic. By Joshua Barone ...

One little trick and BAM, you’ve got yourself a brand-new string instrument. Violinist Esther Abrami has come up with a brilliant trick to make a violin sound like a cello: and literally all you have ...

Composer Johannes Kreidler has made an unusual protest against the merger of German broadcaster SWR's merging of two radio orchestras by smashing a cello and violin on stage at a concert last week.

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 ...

These eight instruments are unlike anything you’ve ever seen; the way the colours dance across the violins’ bodies create a new type of musical art. Alberta artists painted seven well-used violins and ...

Maple wood samples from the interior of the instruments' back plates were obtained as thin shavings during the repair of cracks. The instruments were a violin by Stradivari, dated 1717; a cello by ...