Violin makers routinely finish their instruments with a thick coat of varnish, the better to protect and preserve the wood. Now Swiss scientists claim that this varnish also plays a role in the ...

As clients for his prototype and model-making work began heading abroad, Eugene Holtier, an industrial designer by training, knew he needed to find something with more stability. "I got to the ...

Remo del Tredici began making violins in his 70s. Inspired by his neighbor, a volunteer for AmVets, and the memory of his brother who was killed during WWII, he began giving away his violins to vets.

EUGENE – When David Gusset sets about making a violin, he does so as if the ancient masters are watching over his shoulder. The wood is the finest maple and spruce, shaped meticulously by hand with ...

The workshop is filled with the smell of cut wood and every wall is covered in violins at various stages of completion. In it, Dorian Barnes, the director of workshop operations at Lisle Violin Shop ...

COLLEGE STATION -- Some Texas A&M researchers want to clone cattle, others want to grow a better carrot, find a way to control fire ants or build a sturdier bridge. Biochemist Joseph Nagyvary thinks ...

A violin’s soul? Living instruments? Talking wood? There was nothing ordinary about this 60 Minutes trip to the birthplace of the violin A visit to the birthplace of the violin -- a small town in ...

Robert Gordon III tests the tone of a violin he created in his workshop in Belsano, near Ebensburg. Apart from a stint in the U.S. Navy from 1973-79, Gordon has been making violins since the age of 13 ...