Horror moment conductor knocks £1MILLION violin out of musician’s hands with baton in the middle of a concert

A BRITISH conductor knocked a £1million violin out of the hands of a top soloist after swinging his arms too vigorously during a concerto. Maestro Matthew Halls looked on in horror after clipping ...

MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...
CBS News

Stradivarius violin from 1714 could fetch highest price ever for musical instrument when it goes up for auction

A violin made by the famed Antonio Stradivari in 1714 has the potential to become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold when it goes up for auction Friday at Sotheby's in New York. The ...

Finland’s hotly tipped Eurovision performance features flames, a valuable violin and a safety plan

At the Eurovision Song Contest, performers get just three minutes to impress. This year, Finnish duo Pete Parkkonen and Linda ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 300-Year-Old Stradivarius Violin Could Become the Most Expensive Musical Instrument Ever Sold at Auction

Known as the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius, the violin was once owned by the renowned Hungarian musician Joseph Joachim. Sotheby's A valuable violin with a storied past will be sold at Sotheby’s in February ...
ABC7

'Stolen: The Unsolved Theft of a $3,000,000 Violin' follows mystery of Stradivarius theft days before Erica Morini's death

For decades, renowned violinist Erica Morini thrilled music lovers around the globe. In her hands was one of the most prized possessions in the world of music: a Stradivarius violin which would be ...
Newsweek

For Every Stradivarius Violin Discovered, There Are Many Wannabes, Fakes

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Several years ago, Stephanie Culp Smith received an old violin that had ...
Hackaday

There Are Stradi-various Ways To Make A Violin, And This Is One

We’ve always said that if we had enough money, we’d have a large room that housed every musical instrument we’ve ever been even mildly interested in. While that dream may never come to pass, it would ...

Two stories tall: Towering Violinist performs above New Orleans

Molly Graham started playing violin when she was 8 years old. Now she’s soaring to new heights. WGNO Good Morning New Orleans ...

“You’ll find something that drugs won’t give you, that nothing else will give you”

Lewis Kaplan knows how to put on a music festival in Maine. He’s been doing it for decades.
The Stanford Daily

My violin and me

Last Sunday afternoon, I biked over to the Stanford arches, violin on my back. My friend was waiting for me, armed with two ...
BBC

Violin used in 1997 Titanic film sells for £54k

Jonathan Evans-Jones played band leader Wallace Hartley in the 1997 film A violin played by the band leader of the Titanic as it sank in the 1997 Hollywood film has been sold for £54,000 at a "record ...