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 ...

AN ART ITSELF. >> WE FOUND STUDENTS LEARNING THAT ART RIGHT IN BOSTON’S NORTH END. WITH THE BOSTON POPS ENTERTAIN THE CROWD ON THE ESPLANADE ON JULY WORTH, 2022, ONE MUSICIAN’S VIOLIN CAME FROM JUST ...

Jackson Chase was about 6 when he first learned to play violin. Over the course of his childhood, the Yakima native owned two violins his mother gave him. He recalls superior violinists complimenting ...

In a storybook workshop tucked away in downtown Colorado Springs, Juan Mijares transforms aged wood into instruments that will resonate through centuries. For nearly 40 years, this master luthier, as ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Ytu Pop Strings creates violins, violas, and cellos out of wood. Artisans carve, shape, and string them entirely by hand. More from Real Estate Ytu Pop Strings creates ...

Lots of people harbor dreams but never follow through on them. Rosemary Clancy's was to craft violins by hand. She was 42 years old when she decided to drop everything and go for it.It was a radical ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The most expensive violin ever made is valued at $20 million and is on display at a museum in Oxford England. Peter White is not quite on that level, but the St. Petersburg ...

Ed Bassett has spent a lifetime building beautiful things, so when the now 85-year-old craftsman was searching for a hands-on project seven years ago after his wife died, it’s probably no surprise he ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. — It's amazing the impact a donation can make. The ripple effects from the selfless act of kindness and continue for generations. A Muskegon man, who's spent the last decade ...

A viola made by Ryan Soltis is photographed at his home in Sagle, Idaho on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. He has been making violins for a number of years in his small workshop just south of Sandpoint. A ...

The Hubert Schwyzer Quartet, a unique ensemble of instruments commissioned by Westmont College, is taking shape under the hands of master violin maker James Wimmer at his workshop in Santa Barbara.