The art of string instrument-making will become a ‘critically endangered craft’ as the only UK’s degree course in the subject is set to close. The Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts, which is ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Campaigners say knowledge taught at Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts vital to preserve traditional skills, especially luthiery The making of stringed instruments will become a critically ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...