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 ...

The dan nhi, a bowed two-string instrument, is a multi-purpose fiddle in the vast treasury of Vietnamese traditional music. The dan nhi, a bowed two-string instrument, is a multi-purpose fiddle in the ...

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 ...

Mathew M. Symons was interested in violins from a young age, but growing up in Henry County with Quaker parents it wasn't always easy to explore his passion. The first instrument he created – out of a ...