Alton private violin instructor Kelsey Waits runs her violin studio out of a small room at the front of her house. With a focus on teaching, Waits dedicates part of her life, and her house, to ...

I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...