At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

When you're in a world-class chamber group like The Calidore String Quartet in Delaware, each instrument carries a colorful ...

The Bravo! Vail Music Festival is expanding its education outreach in the Vail Valley with the launch of its new String Instrument Program. Tailored for elementary school students in grades second ...

• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...

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 ...

Kruno Kupresanin's house is a stringed instrument lover's delight. The front room is a musical showroom: Rows of violins, cellos, basses and bows hang from the walls. Many are decades, and some ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...