BLOOMINGTONIt all started at a public school in Minnesota, when 10-year-old Harold Evans picked up his first violin and fell in love.Thanks to a "good program and a good teacher," he quickly excelled ...

And for the last 20 years, he's been on a quest to collect and repair violins of the Holocaust. Amnon Weinstein's Tel Aviv shop is filled with violins, violas and cellos in various states of repair, ...

CHICO — While Bob Scoville was busy running his own insurance company in Marin County, he discovered what he really wanted to do. He had inherited from his father a violin, a family heirloom, and it ...

RED WING, Minn.—With a small saw, hunched over his woodworking bench, Mike Burns cut a tiny wedge from a block of maple wood about the size of a Tic Tac. The wedge will go into what’s called a frog.

When Rebecca Hannigan was 7 she begged her parents for violin lessons for a year until they gave in. When she was 10, she knew. “I wanted to be a violinist when I grow up, and that’s exactly what I ...

When it's time for the "David" Guarneri del Gesu to make one of its periodic forays into the concert hall, the call goes out to Roland Feller. And like an old-time medical specialist, he makes a house ...

I've been impressed by just how far we've been able to go with our repair skills despite coming in with zero woodworking ...

Cambridge Violin is on the second floor of 50 JFK St., across from Staples and Shake Shack and above Amorino. A display case at street level bears a sign with peeling letters that says “VIOLINS VIOLAS ...