By the time the dust settles, Thursday has pulled off something surprisingly cohesive with enough weirdness and bite to remind you why Bear Stone isn’t like anywhere else. Fewer headliners, more ...

Eight decades after the 1709 violin known as the "Small Mendelssohn" disappeared, experts think they've located it in Japan ...

Korinthia Klein’s Bay View violin shop is a hub for Milwaukee musicians. Korinthia Klein sees a lot of banged-up violins. At ...

In San Marino, the New Hollywood String Quartet's annual festival pays tribute to the legendary Hollywood String Quartet with appearances by Leonard Slatkin.

Think of a violin that replaces the bow with a hand-cranked wheel, and adds some extra strings that function similar to drones on a bagpipe.