Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

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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 ...

Frank Polidora always loved violin music, but he never had time to learn the instrument when he was a practicing physician. Jim Depristo was a musician all of his life, but never learned to play the ...

As a young boy, Rochelito Pascual would sit beside his grandmother as she blew dust off a weather-beaten violin’s body. While she cleaned the violin, Pascual would listen wide-eyed to tales about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

December, the “season of cheer,” never fails to evoke ambivalent feelings in me. Yes, there are the twinkling lights and ringing of bells; crimson and gold decorations adorning shops; the intoxicating ...

Actress Sakina Jaffrey, a Nyack resident, is understandably proud of her father, Sanford Allen, who, at age 23, became the first full-time African-American musician to join the New York Philharmonic.