My rookie era: nobody sounds good when they first play a violin

The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax ...
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With fixed-up violin donations, retired professor pays forward a passion for playing

AMES, Iowa – Paul Lasley still remembers how he felt playing the only conspicuously silver-colored metal clarinet in the elementary school band. Lasley’s parents couldn’t afford an instrument when the ...
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Malaysia's first professional violin maker carves out a rare craft

SELANGOR, Malaysia (AP) — Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate strokes. The work is meditative, out of the ...