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NewsBeat: Philadephia Orchestra members surprise airplane passengers with impromptu concert 9 Jun 2013 | 02:09 am
From the New York Daily News: This was one captive audience. When four members of the Philadelphia Orchestra found themselves stuck on board a delayed flight for nearly three hours, they decided to ge...
NewsBeat: Treatment With Fungi Makes a Modern Violin Sound Like a Stradivarius 30 May 2013 | 02:04 am
From Science Daily A good violin depends not only on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. The Swiss wood researcher Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze ...
Catskill Cultural Center Saved, and Renewed, Thanks to a Fiddler’s Tune 14 May 2013 | 02:12 am
From the New York Times: OLIVEBRIDGE, N.Y. — On a spring Sunday in the Catskill Mountains, Jay Ungar, a fiddler wearing a black vest and hiking boots, and his wife, Molly Mason, playing guitar, stood ...
NewsBeat: Paganini to Prince: Daniel Bernard Roumain makes violin cool 1 May 2013 | 01:43 am
From the Kansas City Star: No delusions here. Daniel Bernard Roumain knows what most kids think about the violin. “Not very cool, not very cool at all,” he said once to a group of high school musician...
NewsBeat: A violinist’s view on “A Late Quartet” 17 Apr 2013 | 01:38 am
From The Guardian: If Yaron Zilberman’s film, A Late Quartet, can’t make Christopher Walken and company look like real string players, at least it understands the dynamics of a quartet. It’s very diff...
NewsBeat: Violin Rap Freestyle Video: Mateo Alan And Violinist David Wong Put Everyone To Shame (VIDEO) 10 Apr 2013 | 01:57 am
From the Huffington Post: There is nothing we love more than an impressive freestyle throw down, except perhaps an impressive freestyle throw down accompanied by a classical instrument. The unlikely c...
NewsBeat: That Stradivari violin is talking in Italian! 2 Apr 2013 | 01:56 am
From NBC News: Virtuosos who describe the singing voice of a violin may be on to something. The great violin makers, such as Stradivari and Guarneri, may have designed violins to mimic the human voice...
Meet “Worldfiddler” from Fiddlerman’s “Fiddle Talk” forum 21 Mar 2013 | 03:52 am
Join the forum discussion on this post• Please begin by telling us anything you would like to about yourself. Age, place of birth, residence, etc. Well, as for my age, I’m kinda like not 21 any more, ...
NewsBeat: Titanic violin authenticated as genuine 18 Mar 2013 | 12:08 am
From ABC News: A battery of forensics tests has determined that a violin found in a British man’s attic is the instrument that was used by the bandmaster of the Titanic to play, according to lore, “Ne...
NewsBeat: 3D Printed Violin Ready To Drop A Tune 10 Mar 2013 | 12:36 am
From ubergizmo.com: 3D printing seems to be in the news as of late, and apart from obvious hobbyist escapades and medical purposes, you can also make use of 3D printing to roll out something totally d...
