I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...

Instead of sitting in on her 10-year-old’s violin lessons, Rochelle Thomsen of St. Paul decided she had to join in. “Our daughter Kiana really wanted to play the violin, she had been asking for quite ...