Rob Landes plays the same song on a series of increasingly more expensive violins, and you will be shocked at how subtle the difference is in sound quality. What: A fascinating video that demonstrates ...

CITY OF LAKE MACQUARIE, Australia, Jan. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- John E. McLennan, Ph.D., who has been researching violin acoustics using experimental methods for 30 years, dispels the mystery ...

Music commentator Miles Hoffman, a nationally renowned violist, and NPR's Steve Inskeep visit the Library of Congress' small, priceless collection of Stradivarius instruments. Hoffman plays some of ...

How a violin’s f-holes are shaped can influence the instrument’s lowest notes. MIT scientists, along with a Boston-based violin maker, analyzed how air moves through a violin’s f-shaped holes and ...

A good violin depends on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of th Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science ...

Juno Audio has crafted the first-ever loudspeaker to play music derived from the soniferous perfection of violins. The $25,000 Viotone M One floorstanding speaker claims to be able to transform ...

One little trick and BAM, you’ve got yourself a brand-new string instrument. Violinist Esther Abrami has come up with a brilliant trick to make a violin sound like a cello: and literally all you have ...

When priceless older violins were pitted against modern ones in an experiment at the 2010 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the results hit a sour note for some. Do a 300th birthday ...

From Tchaikovsky to The Temptations, from Imagine Dragons to Johann Sebastian Bach, music masters Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus collaborate to bring audiences a rare glimpse of an evening of unusual, ...

Australian golden orb spiders use their silk to communicate - and now, apparently, to make violins sound beautiful. An engineering student from Imperial College London has built a violin with a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present a method to recuperate fingerings for a given piece of violin music in order to recreate the timbre of a given audio recording of ...