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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

National Violin Day is celebrated on December 13. The day is to applaud the existence of the violin, a wooden string instrument. But are you confused between Violin and Guitar? Guitar and violin are ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...