Physicists at England’s Loughborough University employed the use of nanotechnology to create what they are touting is “the ...

STEFAN JACKIW: I, you know, walk out on stage in the evening with my violin and my bow. And I've been playing on this bow for about 20 years. I got it in my late teens, and I've played ...

A perfect, rapid whole bow stroke is a beautiful coordination of speed, varying hand force from frog to tip, and control of ...

Choosing the right violin bow is now different. Factors such as comfort, responsiveness and enhancement of the personal ...

The bow is a rotating cylinder with 1300 horsehairs. To get the sound of a single violin, it actually uses three of them. Rather than the bow being moved to press against the strings, the violins ...

“About 1/3 of the way into the concerto, my trusty Voirin [François Nicolas Voirin, a violin maker], suddenly snapped in two! Obviously, I was totally unprepared for this disaster, but I grabbed the ...

APPRAISER: And it's mounted in sterling silver. And the bow would have been made around the same time as the violin, right around 1915-1917. It doesn't have the maker's name on it, but it's an ...