Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an ...

There is no question that violin-making is an art form. It requires a musician's ear, a craftsperson's skill, and a historian ...

A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

John Jordan’s garage is overflowing with the bodies of unfinished violins. Some look like tapered chunks of maple or redwood. Others are closer to completion: sticklike necks with one swooping curve ...

At Geoffrey J. Seitz, Violinmaker, the eponymous violin shop in Holly Hills, string instruments crowd every corner. This is no carefully curated showroom. It’s more like a teenager’s bedroom, ...

Mark Wood, toting a seven-string electric violin of his own design that looks more Eddie Van Halen than Itzhak Perlman, did perhaps the scariest of things. He performed for the toughest critics -- a ...