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

As Germany devolved into chaos at the end of World War II, a rare violin from the famed shop of Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari was plundered from a bank safe in Berlin. The instrument, crafted ...

Caption: A highly precise, nanometer-scale imaging technique revealed a protein-based layer between the wood and the varnish coating of these two Stradivarius violins [images of the San Lorenzo 1718 ...