[Bithead942]’s ten-year-old niece is a huge Star Wars fan, and also a violinist. Which of course has led her to learn to play some of the music from the film franchise, and then to ask her uncle to ...

Bow Production I will make a bow where the violin body is made. What to use is a toothpick made of bamboo. Fold the tip halfway, fix the angle by attaching adhesive in a state that it was made a ...

Watching Yasuoki Tanaka work is like stepping back in time. Surrounded by hand tools and little vials of resin-colored liquids in the workshop at his Columbia home, he combs out strands of thick, ...

Hey, if you don't knock off the fighting, we'll have to turn the car around and go home. We're on our way to Classic Bows in Golden Hill to check out this question with owner Gregory Gohde. Can we ...

Who knew the venerable violin still had surprises in store for us, after nearly 500 years as one of the leading voices in music? An Australian master archetier, or bow-maker, has built a simple device ...

Listen to those amazing double-stops and harmonies, and that bagpipe-esque drone. Basically, it’s awesome and you should definitely try this at home (just don’t break all your bow hairs). Violinist ...

Vadim Gluzman uses a bow once used by Eugène Ysaÿe and Henryk Szeryng."; Most of us will not get past the first part of that headline, thinking, "Oh, another story about a multi-million dollar violin ...