Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

Jeff Reider runs the cello bow slowly over a clean-burning flame, fine hairs from a Mongolian stallion cinching together in a taught line under his watchful eye. “There’s a fine line between cinching ...

The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

Tarisio, the leading venue for fine instruments, offers free evaluations of violins, violas, cellos and bows in Washington, D ...