Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ANDY ARONOWICZ: Hi, I'm Andy. I'm a musician. I write and play music. ANNA FOONG: And I'm Anna. I'm a ...

About a dozen young musicians showed their mastery of stringed instruments Thursday (Feb. 19) at Park Elementary’s Heart Strings Recital. Most of the second- through fifth-graders played guitars, but ...

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The first known instance of a composer ordering up plucking violins came just three years later. To musician and NPR cultural commentator Miles Hoffman, ...

The romantic draw of music has made a great impact on Tom Metzler’s life. It has taken him from an impressionable young boy to the owner of a violin shop in Glendale. When he was 7 or 8 years old, ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Heineken Ireland, in association with the CIT Cork School of Music (CSM), invited applicantions last night for the 2010 competition for the Heineken Ireland violin. The instrument, which dates from ...

Here's one out of left field. Turkish musician Gorkem Sen has invented a new kind of musical instrument that incorporates fretted strings, coiled springs and drum membranes to create a range of ...

San Francisco police have cracked the case of the vanishing violins. Over the past few months, investigators say, a San Francisco man ordered at least three handcrafted violins -- worth as much as $25 ...