Alton private violin instructor Kelsey Waits runs her violin studio out of a small room at the front of her house. With a focus on teaching, Waits dedicates part of her life, and her house, to ...

Joshua Bell opens the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s season on September 26. We pulled some strings to introduce his exceptional stradivarius. The violin is called the Gibson ex Huberman ...

Alton private violin instructor Kelsey Waits runs her violin studio out of a small room at the front of her house. With a focus on teaching, Waits dedicates part of her life, and her house, to ...

Violinist Andrew Bird answers the internet's burning questions about playing the violin. What is the secret to vibrato? Why are violins so expensive? Is there a trick to properly tuning a violin?

Chloe Yofan of Fox Chapel can barely remember a time when a violin wasn’t a fixture in her life. The 24-year-old recalled her earliest violin memory: “I remember going to my first ever violin lesson ...

I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...

“Do you believe in the literal truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ?” We had just tuned our instruments, the way we did at the beginning of every lesson, when my violin teacher abruptly asked me ...

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