Traditional Irish fiddle player Rob Zielinski has spent a lifetime repairing high quality instruments and is now ready to start making his own. Loading... The Albany-based musician has built six ...

One day they’ll make beautiful music, but for the moment the slabs of mahogany, spruce and maple that Martin Brunkalla will fashion into violins are neatly stacked in his Marengo workshop. The only ...

Tonewoods are wood species that possess certain desirable properties that make them suitable for making musical instruments, such as woodwind or string instruments – like a flute or a violin. Any good ...

TONEWOOD is a wood species that possesses certain desirable properties that make it suitable for making musical instruments, such as woodwind or string instruments — like a flute or a violin. Any good ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers using a medical scanner have worked out why a Stradivarius violin sounds so good -- it is because of the remarkably even density of the wood. Sign up here. For the past ...

A wood preservation technique was probably responsible for the exquisite sound produced by violins of the 17 th-century Italian instrument makers Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri. Chemical ...

The African violin was played by various musicians on separate occasions, and all agreed that its sound is quite different from that of most other violins. Tonewoods are wood species that possess ...