Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a Russian, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, ...

Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a Russian, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, ...

Weighing over 130kg, this ginormous instrument is the largest playable violin in the whole world... Musicians across the world have set and broken all kinds of Guinness World Records over the years, ...

When priceless older violins were pitted against modern ones in an experiment at the 2010 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the results hit a sour note for some. Do a 300th birthday ...

A musical sound once thought to be heard only in our heads as a quirk of the ear canal is actually real. Violins can produce these unusual tones – and higher quality violins can produce them more ...

Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Grammy-nominated violinist who left his $US4 million ($4.2 million), 285-year-old Stradivarius in a ...

Spider silk may be known for being extremely strong, yet it's also elastic – that's how it's able to both hold struggling prey, and alert spiders to that prey by transmitting vibrations caused by ...

This video of Laurent Bernadac, an engineer and lifelong musician, playing the violin looks and sounds very little like a person playing the violin. For one thing, he’s also using a looper and effects ...