Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

The music teacher at Country Oaks Elementary School started the ensemble after fundraising for instruments, giving kids ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When Shelia Sudberry heard there was an opportunity to learn to play the violin for free she jumped at the chance. She has been driving her granddaughter, Jamiyah Dotson, to ...

On Saturday I met a ranking member of an elusive, secret society: the luthiers. In layman’s terms, that means Gary Garavaglia is a violin maker, but in the world of string instruments, he’s a master.

It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...

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I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...

Actress Sakina Jaffrey, a Nyack resident, is understandably proud of her father, Sanford Allen, who, at age 23, became the first full-time African-American musician to join the New York Philharmonic.