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- What Do You Do if You “Find a Strad”?
- Violinmaking and Chladni Patterns
- Materials for Making Violin Strings
- The Acoustics of the Violin Body
- Hourglass Shapes of Violins, Violas and Cellos
- The Varying Sizes of Violins, Violas and Cellos
- Violin Acoustics and the Thickness of Wood
- Types of Violin Strings and the Character of Sound
- The Difference Between Violins and Fiddles
- The "Stradivarius" Violin Label: What it Means
- Dendrochronology and Fine Violins
- The US Federal Ivory Ban and Musical Instruments
- The Study: Do Modern Violins Measure Up to Strads?
- The Lowdown on the Viola da Gamba
- How to Choose a Violin Teacher for Your Child
- The Suzuki Method Approach to Learning Violin
- Mittenwald, Germany: The Center of German Violinmaking
- Why Mirecourt, France is the Bow Making Capital of the World
- Folk Fiddles and Rattlesnake Rattles
- An Overview of American Violinmaking Schools
- Carl Frederick Becker: The Dean of American Violinmaking
- The Rare and Exquisite 12 Apostles Violin Cases
- Bow Making Port Townsend: The Mirecourt of the United States
- The History of Standard Tuning: Who Standardized it, Why, and When?
- The Benefits to Children Who Learn String Instruments
- Ways to Electrify an Acoustic Violin
- Authentication and Certification of Fine Stringed Instruments
- The “Other” Instruments of Antonio Stradivari
- Fibonacci Series and Stradivarius Instruments
- “Violins of Hope” Immortalize Music of Holocaust Musicians
- Carl Becker and the Lady Blunt Stradivarius Violin
- The Street Symphony: Social Justice and Music Making
- Purchasing a Fine Stringed Instrument at Auction
- What Does “Factory Made Violin” Mean?
- Demystifying the Viola d’amore
- A Look Into Violin Making Competitions
- How Violin Rentals Generally Work
- The Violins of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin
- The Lowdown on Fine Instrument Investing
- Fine Musical Instrument Appraisal: Factors to Consider
- The Violins of Violinist Jascha Heifetz
- The Famous – or Infamous – Thefts of Stradivarius Violins
- Demystifying the Stringed Instrument Bridge
- Baroque Musical Instruments vs. Modern Stringed Instruments
- The Violins of Pablo de Sarasate
- "The Violin Makers of the United States" by Thomas Wenberg
- Violinmaking: Why the Age of the Wood Matters
- Need a Strad? Borrow One Here.
- The Violins of Violinist Nathan Milstein
- Why You Can’t Easily Sell a Stolen Stradivarius Instrument
- The Stradivarius Instruments of The Met Museum
- Albert Einstein and the Violin
- The Primrose International Viola Competition
- The Story on Aluminum Violins, Violas and Cellos
- The Violins of Violinist Ruggiero Ricci
- Provenance and a Fine Instrument’s Value
- The Violins of Violinist Isaac Stern
- Violinists Turned Conductors
- The Violins of Violinist Itzhak Perlman
- Six Facts About Norwegian Hardanger Folk Fiddles
- The Violins of Violinist Fritz Kreisler
- Pablo Picasso and the Violin
- The Story of the Messiah Stradivarius Violin
- The Violins, and Life, of Niccolò Paganini
- Pablo Casals and His Goffriller Cello
- The Voller Brothers: Masters of Imitation and Deceit
- Museums of Musical Instruments
- Stradivari’s Red Mendelssohn: The Inspiration for “The Red Violin”
- The Dicterow Family of Violinists
- DeLay, Gingold & Galamian: Three Legendary Violin Teachers
- The Violins of the Henry Ford Museum
- Violins in the Work of Artist Marc Chagall
- The Wurlitzer Company and Fine Stringed Instruments
- Violinmaking