When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma visited the nearly completed Green Music Center in 2011, he did not bring either of his famous cellos: the Davidov Stradivarius crafted in 1712 or the Montagnana ...

Every year, International Cello Day 2025 is observed on December 29 on the birthday of legendary Spanish cellist Pablo Casals ...

The Bay Area is home to a number of craftspeople producing high-quality musical instruments entirely by hand, people who choose and treat their materials with extreme care and are obsessed with sound ...

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BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...

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 ...

Have you ever met a luthier? Perhaps you have and didn't know it. Perhaps you've heard the word, like I have, but can't really define it -- so you wouldn't even know if you had met one or not. I would ...

Fabrice Beluze usually begins his day by putting on a black apron. He then sits down with different tools to either repair stringed instruments or make them. The curly-haired French citizen also has ...

On a recent Thursday, Matt Haimovitz, the forty-seven-year-old virtuoso cellist, packed an empty instrument case into the back of his car and drove from his home, in Montreal, to a friend’s apartment ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren't on? No worries. They'd still have a job. The whole technological ...