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 ...

Instruments of "violin genus" such as violin, viola, cello and contrabass are traditionally opened in the opening of the letter "F" on the body surface of the instrumentF HoleTo be holding. The shape ...

Jeff Reider runs the cello bow slowly over a clean-burning flame, fine hairs from a Mongolian stallion cinching together in a taught line under his watchful eye. “There’s a fine line between cinching ...

Inside San Francisco’s War Memorial Veterans Building, a group of carefully chosen Bay Area musicians gingerly draw their bows across the strings of 49 historic violins, a viola and a cello. Some of ...