An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same feel as ...

At just 10 years old, Brandon Hoff picked up a violin and fell in love. Just a few years later, Mark Wood — the inventor of the first solid-body electric violin and world-leading rock violinist — ...

Longtime Phoenix music fans will remember Barry Smith of Gentlemen AfterDark, Arizona’s new wave/post-glam legends from the early ’80s. Smith played keyboards, saxophone, and violin for the band, ...

Nina DiGregorio always wanted to play rock and roll — but doing that on the violin wasn’t much of an option when she was growing up in upstate New York, she said. Today, however, she’s known as the ...

Last weekend’s North Carolina Symphony concert, which the orchestra will reprise tomorrow night in Raleigh, was all about strings and the natural world. The show featured pieces that investigate ...

I'm looking to buy one in a week or two. I just started playing violin last year. I love it. I actually started to support my daughter - she chose to start Orchestra this year and chose violin so I ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...