GARRISON -- Arnie Anderson traveled halfway around the world to get an education in making violins. His daughter, Sarah, doesn't even have to leave her house to get the same education. Sarah, 20, has ...

Touring musician and composer Ray Suen was able to replace his broken five-string violin with a newer model designed by the same luthier, Gary Bartig, who's based in New Brighton.

Sam Zygmuntowicz, a 40-something Brooklynite and the center of John Marchese’s nonfiction book “The Violin Maker,” has been asking questions about the centuries-old craft of violin-making. Those ...

Sam Zygmuntowicz, 50, the subject of John Marchese's book, "The Violin Maker," lives and works on a quiet street in Brooklyn lined with classic brownstones and townhouses. If you pass through a small ...

The art and craft of violin making. He scrapes it, gouges it, and sands it. He bends it, carves it, and colors it. Above all, he listens to it. (Violins playing) At 43, Zygmuntowicz is a leading maker ...

Carleen Hutchins, 98, a violin maker who crafted some of the finest instruments of her time, invented new ones and, through science, came as close as anyone ever has to reproducing the venerated sound ...

For 30 years, violin maker Tom Verdot has seen no need to reinvent the wheel in an occupation that has been around for 400 years. But last spring he decided the time was right to have an apprentice.

The Violin Makers Association of Arizona International will hold its 50th anniversary convention in Tucson next week, attracting luthiers from around the U.S. and Canada. Crafters will converge on the ...

Langer writes for the Washington Post. Carleen Hutchins, a violin maker who crafted some of the finest instruments of her time, invented new ones and, through science, came as close as anyone ever has ...

Focus on John Montgomery’s violin shop on Hillsborough Street, and it appears unchanged from when he opened it in 1987, when entire days passed without a single person walking by, the words “Violin ...