For her new album, musician Anne Harris commissioned a violin from luthier Amanda Ewing, the first such professional ...

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Known as tsiattista, the tradition combines quick thinking, lyrical flair and a deep sense of cultural pride. A violin and ...

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The phrase is often accompanied by a hand gesture mimicking someone playing a tiny violin between their thumb and forefinger. The Loughborough violin is a microscopic image rather than a playable ...

DOUGLAS - Haley Bilodeau's hands maneuvered swiftly around the violin, a 1923 John Juzek classic made in Prague. Antonio Vivaldi's Summer, the fastest of his four Seasons concerti, echoed through ...

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with musician Anne Harris and Amanda Ewing, the Nashville luthier whose violin Harris uses on her new album, "I Feel It Once Again." ...

"She got it from a college student who was looking for some quick cash and I have been playing on that violin since then." I had never in my life questioned the hands of the maker that made my ...

In a sealed room at Loughborough University, where even a mote of dust could sabotage the work, a group of physicists have ...