There are some sweet sounds coming from an Omaha basement as a local violin maker hones his craft at home. He's also getting attention from a Grammy artist.Crammed in a small corner in his basement, ...

Benoit Rolland’s handmade violin bows have earned him worldwide recognition. Now that he’s won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, he plans to experiment with the ...

Wood shavings curl from a hand tool as Mark Moreland, hunched over a workbench, carefully reshapes the inside of a violin. Moreland pauses in his work, saying he relives his childhood dream each time ...

New Mexico’s own Anne Cole is one of those solo entrepreneurs whose business stems from her own zeal to achieve perfection in her craft. As a master builder of violins, violas and cellos, her handmade ...

The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren’t on? No worries. They’d still have a job. The whole technological infrastructure ...

CHICAGO -- Paul Becker of Carl Becker & Son in Chicago makes no bones about his father's legacy of violin making. "He was the best in the world. There was no doubt. There was no one who came close to ...

A widow’s generosity will be helping promising musicians for years to come at the South Shore Conservatory. The Hingham-based music school recently received a rare donation of 19 handcrafted violins ...