SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...

Almost a decade ago, classical fiddle student Lauren Rioux was walking to an evening class at a music conference in Ohio, but she forgot all about where she was going when she heard a couple of people ...

Upon first glance at the band name, one might get the impression that 10 String Symphony is a larger ensemble than just the duo of Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer. “We often get to a venue and ...

At Geoffrey J. Seitz, Violinmaker, the eponymous violin shop in Holly Hills, string instruments crowd every corner. This is no carefully curated showroom. It’s more like a teenager’s bedroom, ...

Heard a story once about Niccolo Paginini, the Italian violin prodigy who suffered from a grab-bag of maladies, that when his teeth began to fall out he’d use violin strings to hold them together. The ...

If you can't afford it, or just can't find it — make it; motto of Sam Goodall. The violinist had long wanted a five-string fiddle, "I joked I had C-string envy," she says. But under the tutelage of ...