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 ...

It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...

First, let me situate you: doors clanging, people yelling, guards barking. The noise in prison is non-stop, and nighttime is often louder than daytime, because at night many inmates cry out, haunted ...

Frank Polidora always loved violin music, but he never had time to learn the instrument when he was a practicing physician. Jim Depristo was a musician all of his life, but never learned to play the ...

Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

EAST SPENCER — JaQuan Jackson didn’t have a problem identifying the musical note when asked by music instructor Karen Franks. The 17-year-old easily answered several questions during an afternoon ...

Maybe none of them will grow up to be the next Itzhak Perlman, but a group of Osceola County, Fla., pre-K students are getting a head start on their education through violin lessons. About 80 at-risk ...

Carefully, Samuel Zygmuntowicz fastened a $6 million Stradivarius violin to a cement wall in a laboratory at East Carolina University. Then, a guy he barely knew whacked the chestnut-colored treasure ...