Varnish does more than just provide a protective sheen to a violin. It influences the vibrations and impulses that the wood absorbs and therefore the quality of sound the instrument produces, says an ...

A self-taught violin maker has been recognized for his craftsmanship in an international competition which featured almost 200 violins. When Richard “Rick” Thanem of Port Angeles entered a violin of ...

Robert Gordon III tests the tone of a violin he created in his workshop in Belsano, near Ebensburg. Apart from a stint in the U.S. Navy from 1973-79, Gordon has been making violins since the age of 13 ...

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 ...

HHE scientific explanation of certain qualities of violin tone is still an unsolved problem of great complexity. When a copy of an old Italian violin has not the tone qualities of the original, it is ...

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