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Malaysian luthier Tan Chin Sang checks the maple for a violin back plate at his workshop in the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) ...

The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the Holocaust, is coming to the West Coast. “The Violin Maker” will have its ...

A master craftsman supposedly pours their soul into their work. In this book review of The Violin Maker’s Secret, we explore an instrument that possesses a soul and a memory entirely its own. Evie ...

Workers step up production to fill violin orders in Queshan county, Henan province, on June 25. XIA QINGHUA / CHINA NEWS SERVICE By WANG ZHUOQIONG When Gao Yanding decided to make his own violin, he ...

For 500 years, violin-makers have crafted their instruments by hand. But for the past three years, three Minnesotans have been crafting them with the help of a CT scanner and computer-aided machine.

Howard Needham is standing in a room deep in the bowels of Catholic University's Ward Hall, listening to Samantha Cody play violin. "The wolf notes are gone," he says to Emil Chudnovsky, a CU music ...