“I want to show you what I’ve been working on,” Ryan Soltis says as we tromp through ice-crusted snow toward his sleeping garden. He opens a large gate, and we make our way around what appears to be a ...

The art and craft of violin making. He scrapes it, gouges it, and sands it. He bends it, carves it, and colors it. Above all, he listens to it. (Violins playing) At 43, Zygmuntowicz is a leading maker ...

SELANGOR, Malaysia--Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate strokes. The work is meditative, out of the public eye ...

Although I have often relished the tender melody of the violin, it wasn’t until I met Mathias Menanteau that I realized the endless passion and mastery necessary for its creation. Sign up here. French ...

But what looks at first glance like a crisis is actually the catalyst for an unprecedented boom in instrument-making. No longer playing second fiddle to their elder counterparts, contemporary violins, ...

Originally from Poland, the North Bennet Street School department head of violin making and repair is an expert in the instrument’s craft and history As department head of violin making and repair at ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It's not widely known, but a small Salt Lake City shop has been making sweet music as the oldest violin making school in the country. Since 1972, the Violin Making School has sat at ...