You take your violin out, or your bow, and surprise: no sound. But clearly, no sound at all: what a surprise! It is not that the sound is soft, low, or muffled: it is completely absent. The thing is,...

When a violin doesn't stay in tune, it means that the pegs that hold the strings in the pegbox turn freely and don't hold the tension.Unlike the guitar where the tuning pegs are held in place by...

Whether you need to travel with your bow, you are in the market for a new bow, or out of plain curiosity, it is important for any string player to know what string instrument bows are made out...

The bow is made out of wood, hair (horsetail hair), and then the frog made out of ebony mainly. The wooden stick is delicately cambered with heat. So, what do we have to preserve when we store our...

Violins are somehow mythical instruments that can be expensive. Stradivarius violins can even cost up to many millions of dollars. And they sound so wonderfully in the hands of our virtuosi. So what...

If you won’t be playing your violin for a while, don’t just toss it under a staircase and call it a day. Far too many violins have been lost to negligence like this because people fail to realize...