The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

(WATE) — A violin that once belonged to a 12-year-old boy who saw his family murdered is now on ... the darkest chapters of human history. These instruments belonged to Jews in the Holocaust ...

Chabad of Plano hosted "Violins of Hope" Tuesday at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, showcasing Holocaust-era instruments ...

it is important to understand the nature of the antique stringed instrument business. It is a rather close-knit industry with many family-run shops like ours,” David Brobst, one of the violin ...

Originally from Poland, the North Bennet Street School department head of violin making and repair is an expert in the ...

As a rule those instruments which are of the simplest construction, are the most perfect in tone, and at the same time most difficult to play; as examples we may mention the violin family ...

With expertise founded in the making and restoration of string instruments, Kerry Keane has been involved in the musical-instrument trade for more than 30 years. He began his career in 1973 with ...

Prosecutors said that the man persuaded music stores to lend him violins worth tens of thousands of dollars on a trial basis, ...

History The double bass is generally regarded as a modern descendant of the string family of instruments that originated in Europe in the 15th century, and as such has been described as a bass Violin.