No music was ever sweeter to Odin Rathnam than the reunion with his lost 18th-century violin at the 20th Precinct station house early yesterday. “I feel like a new man; I haven’t been able to sleep ...

Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You've no doubt heard your mama or your neighbor remark that they're feeling "fit as a fiddle." Zenas ...

A couple of decades ago on a Christmas morning, our young grandson Sam opened the most desired of his gifts. His mom Michele and dad Scot, as well as Sharon and I were there to witness the event — me ...

From a collection of bows hung on music stand in his living room, Tom Carlson carefully pulls one out, tightening the ribbon of horsehair until taut. Next, he turns to a row of violins sitting ...

Sixteen-year-old Mia Orosco is a sweet, unassuming, pixie-like junior from Lorena with an affectionate presence. But when she takes the stage with her fiddle, man, can she produce a big, commanding ...

Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham Cockerham’s fretless banjo is also in the collection of the National Museum of American History In an on-going series, ATM will bring you the occasional post from a ...

A rented violin started Joanna Calhoun on the path to being crowned the state fiddle champion Saturday. Her mom, Sarah Calhoun Allbritton, said she paid $17 a month for the instrument for a summer ...

I hate to confess this, but I've never been that keen on Stephane Grappelli's playing, as masterful and brilliant as he assuredly was. ("He plays with an accent," violinist and Berklee professor Rob ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (July 19, 2019) -- When Akiyasu Sumi first asked an American friend about going to a bluegrass festival in the United States, the man cautioned him against it, saying the festivals ...

That was the first thing Kenneth Slowik said to me when I cornered him at the Smithsonian Castle last month. Slowik, artistic director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, had just finished ...

Varnish does more than just provide a protective sheen to a violin. It influences the vibrations and impulses that the wood absorbs and therefore the quality of sound the instrument produces, says an ...