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 ...

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 ...

Violin Vasudevan, cultural advisor and faculty (musicology and music appreciation), IIIT-Hyderabad has developed 100 short video tutorials to learn Carnatic violin fundamentals with every episode ...

Subramaniam Academy of Performing Arts (SaPa) in Bengaluru has addressed an important matter in learning the violin, the Indian way. The first in the series SaPa Baby Violin (SaPa Level-1) ...

I started playing violin in 2008. I was 56 years old. My wife and I were on a weekend trip to New York. We had just seen some downtown theater and were making our way back to our hotel. On a mostly ...