NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with Brendan Slocumb, author of The Violin Conspiracy. The crime mystery finds a Black classical musician trying to recover his stolen instrument — among other challenges.

Technicians at Potter Violins, a violin shop in Maryland, reversed the strings on her instrument, so she could finger with her right hand. Her first music teacher, Amber Hicks, plucked the strings ...

Combined, you get certain resonant frequencies of the violin, and at those frequencies the violin will sound louder. In this new study, Clark once again put feathers into a wind tunnel.

There’s no better way to express mock sympathy than by playing the “world’s smallest violin,” but the sad song you mime can now actually be heard. Enterprising minds at creative studio ...