What if the Wood Used to Make Musical Instruments Becomes Illegal?

For centuries, the standard wood used to make string instruments’ bows has come from the pernambuco tree in Brazil. Its ...
Seven Days

The Art of… String Instruments

Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...
PBS

The Violin in the String Family of the Orchestra

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Northeast Woman: Marywood string professor fine tunes musical skills of all ages

Music allows Sophie Till to reach across continents. She teaches musicians of all skill levels from all different parts of the world the finer points of string instruments. From Marywood University, ...