A secret note written by a man who was imprisoned inside a World War II concentration camp has been found inside a violin. Franciszek "Franz" Kempa built the instrument in 1941 while imprisoned by the ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

Spider silk is turning out to be a remarkably versatile material. Aside from having a higher heat conductivity than any other organic matter and proteins for inserting genes into cells, strings from a ...

Spiders might soon give you goosebumps in a good way. Strands of spider silk have been used to make violin strings that have a unique and thrilling sound, thanks perhaps to the way the strands deform ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

16th size violin at Shaker Violin Repair. From his homestead on the icy southern banks of the Mohawk River in Latham, Stephen Iachetta is building his second career running Shaker Violin Repair.