Elinor Rose Colbert, a retired men’s suits patternmaker and family matriarch, died of dementia complications Saturday at her Manchester home. She was 85. Born in Keyser, West Virginia, she was the ...

Amanda Ewing makes history as the first recorded Black female violin maker in U.S. history, crafting instruments and mentoring others in Nashville. Warning issued as millions told don't drink coffee ...

Rudolf Pilsel has made 25 cellos, 35 violas, more than 100 violins and hundreds of bows since the age of 20 An instrument and bow maker has said an absence of training and ban on materials threatens ...

An instrument and bow maker has said an absence of training and ban on materials threatens the future of his industry. Rudolf Pilsel sold his first violin 52 years ago. He has since worked with the ...

Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate strokes. The work is meditative, out of the public eye. For Tan, ...

Tan, a computer science graduate who doesn’t play the violin, once co-owned a music school and helped in his family’s food business. In 2010, a trip to China to restore an old violin sparked his ...

SELANGOR, Malaysia (AP) — Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate strokes. The work is meditative, out of the ...

Physicists at Loughborough University have used cutting-edge nanotechnology to create what they believe may be "the world's smallest violin," which is small enough to fit within the width of a human ...

Editor’s note: Theater Critic Sean McMullen has handed over The Showbuzz to the Grunion’s Pinch of Salt Columnist Harry Saltzgaver for the week. A tour de force. It’s hard to think of a better ...