A West Texas man chipped away at the project for decades. When he died in 2018, the violin was still unfinished — a bunch of carefully crafted parts in a box. Robert Hunter wasn't famous. The man who ...

CAMBRIDGE, Minnesota — The strings on his fiddle dance with the bow while Gene Van Alstine waltzes with his past. On a summer afternoon, Gene plays fiddle solo in his workshop a few steps from a ...

The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren’t on? No worries. They’d still have a job. The whole technological infrastructure ...

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 ...

The Cathedral has stood tall in the center of Cremona since the 12th century, but the heartbeat of this city is heard in the ...

Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You've no doubt heard your mama or your neighbor remark that they're feeling "fit as a fiddle." Zenas ...

Within hours of arriving at Fiddle Camp in Stillwater this week, students were learning the art of improvising from two masters. Bluegrass, explained Brian Wicklund and Joe Walsh, is all about ...

The violin as we know it today dates back to 16th-century northern Italy. The region spawned dynasties of violin makers, whose names are still synonymous with quality: Giuseppe Guarnari, Antonio ...