Forty-five years after he’d heard an Albani violin in a music department storage room, 18 years after he’d first set out to answer a question, he discovered how the wood and the strings ...

Tan Chin Seng is Malaysia’s first professional violin luthier, or maker of string instruments like violins, cellos and ...

Our favorite, the Realist RV-4 Pro E Series Acoustic/Electric 4-String Violin, can be played as either an acoustic or an electric violin. If you’d like to learn more about Realist’s RV-4 or ...

An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same ...

Student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. Instead of heading to the ...

And so a skillful violin player is able to do a number of things with the bow. So we will adjust the rate of speed at which the hair travels across the string and how much pressure we use to rub the ...