The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

"For him, to destroy an instrument was not the right way. He thought and believed that the instruments, they didn't harm," he said. Today, the collection has grown to over 100 string instruments.

They also offer appraisal, restoration and repair of violin family instruments. Straight shooting, no-nonsense advice is what you will find at Fiddle & Bow Music Company.

Take the violin, for example. Unless you’re taking lessons, you probably never think about this workhorse of the orchestra. But this week, you should, because Sunday is National Violin Day.

The book, published in 2014, details how the violin assumed an extraordinary role within the Jewish community during the Holocaust, providing comfort, optimism and even saving the musicians’ lives.

The shape of the violin, perhaps one of the most iconic musical instruments, has changed and evolved over the course of its 400 years. Plant researcher and musician Dan Chitwood found out how.

At Christie's Fine Musical Instruments sale on Wednesday, collectors expect the smallest instrument in the string family—the violin—to outsell its larger cousins, the viola and the cello. A ...

Object Details author Straeten, Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der 1855-1934 Notes "This Da Capo Press edition is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in London in 1933" Contents I.

Many violin-family bows were made from pernambuco, a CITES-listed wood, which requires special paperwork for travel. Fine guitars were made from Brazilian rosewood or Honduras mahogany, now ...

It's definitely a violin shop. And by violin shop, that refers to violin family instruments: violin, viola, cello." And she also has upright basses. "Put it this way," she said.