What: A fascinating video that demonstrates the difference in sound quality between an extremely affordable violin, and one that costs as much as beachfront property. Who: YouTube violinist Rob Landes ...

Rhett Price is accustomed to recording music and performing at shows using a wooden violin that’s been around for at least two centuries. So when he recently picked up and experimented with a plastic ...

The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax ...

A demonstration of how consistent, long-term practice transforms skill. This performance reflects the result of years of ...

We’ve seen 3D-printed violins before, but they used an electric pickup to amplify the sound of the resonating strings. Using a newly formulated white resin, Formlabs instead 3D-printed an acoustic ...

[Matt and Kaitlin Hova] have created The Hovalin, an open source 3D-printed violin. Yes, there have been 3D-printed instruments before, but [The Hovas] have created something revolutionary – a 3D ...

Researchers using a medical scanner have worked out why a Stradivarius violin sounds so good — it is because of the remarkably even density of the wood. For the past 300 years, musicians and ...

Manufacturers are getting nervous as 3D printers are getting more and more skilled at perfectly recreating every last detail of a physical object. But on the flip side of that coin is the possibility ...