There is no question that violin-making is an art form. It requires a musician's ear, a craftsperson's skill, and a historian's appreciation of lessons learned over time. Making a violin also takes ...

We’ve always said that if we had enough money, we’d have a large room that housed every musical instrument we’ve ever been even mildly interested in. While that dream may never come to pass, it would ...

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 ...

Meet the man who is trying to make the closest thing you will get to a 21st-century Stradivarius. Award-winning Swiss luthier David Leonard Wiedmer has set himself the task of reproducing the ...

Tonewoods are wood species that possess certain desirable properties that make them suitable for making musical instruments, such as woodwind or string instruments – like a flute or a violin. Any good ...

There is no question that violin-making is an art form. It requires a musician’s ear, a craftsperson’s skill, and an historian’s appreciation of lessons learned over time. Making a violin also takes ...

Some artists make music by playing instruments. Others make music by building them. In 2017, Jonathan Clark and friend Nathaniel Bruner opened Antique Violins of Augusta, in the Olde Town neighborhood ...