Wallace Hartley and his orchestral band famously played on to reassure the passengers as the 1912 disaster unfolded around them. Wallace went down with the ship but not before he put his wooden violin ...

They could have just gone with some simple wrapping paper, or one of those dollar-store gift bags. But a fiddling group from Williams Lake, B.C., instead stumbled upon something much more interesting ...

Matt Wood has always had a passion for music and plays his violin every day in Northampton's town centre A charity has launched an appeal for donations to help a homeless musician replace his violin ...

The best of German design is celebrated in a new collaboration between Rimowa and Gewa, who draw on a shared commitment to functional luxury with a special-edition violin case. As an expert in ...

The French violinist Renaud Capuçon regularly pours his soul into his 286-year-old instrument. It’s one of only about 250 Guarneri violins that still exist. For his January Carnegie Hall debut, the ...

A Pittsburgh violin maker helped crack a 35-year-old case of a missing Stradivarius violin. Master violin maker, Philip Injeian, identified the multi-million dollar violin and reported his find to the ...

Stradivarius violins are so important that they come with their own biographies. Several hundred of them survive today, and they're so prized, you can trace their lineages through the musicians who ...

A charity has launched an appeal for donations to help a homeless musician replace his violin case. Matt Wood, 48, has been playing the violin since he was 11 years old and was a familiar face in ...

In music, a coda is a passage that brings a musical composition to an end. This is the coda to a musical saga — the story of the Stradivarius violin that was stolen 37 years ago from my late father, ...