Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

This is the sixth in a 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 ...

FRAN SCOTT: I love this piece. In fact I think it was the first bitof classical music that I ever heard. GREG FOOT: Ah yes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It's got the best startto any piece of music ever ...

Watch these talented virtuosos balance and bow on a 12-metre floating violin winding its way around the picturesque Italian city. Venetian artist and sculptor Livio De Marchi has for decades created ...

The micronium is a musical instrument with strings a millionth of an inch thick, and thanks to some nifty engineering it’s the tiniest instrument ever producing audible notes. This really is the world ...

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (WXYZ) — At Wilson's Fine Violins in Birmingham, Rob Wilson and crew are craftsmen and curators, who shoulder some very serious responsibility ...

Jeff Reider runs the cello bow slowly over a clean-burning flame, fine hairs from a Mongolian stallion cinching together in a taught line under his watchful eye. “There’s a fine line between cinching ...

A violin which was made almost three centuries ago has been sold at auction in New York for $9.44 million (£7.71 million). Made in 1731 by acclaimed Italian luthier, Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri ‘del ...