The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax ...

Frank Polidora always loved violin music, but he never had time to learn the instrument when he was a practicing physician. Jim Depristo was a musician all of his life, but never learned to play the ...

It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...

Gabrielle Sirmans, 9, couldn't wait to meet her violin. Once she did, she couldn't wait to learn how to play it. "It's music," she said, grinning with pure joy. "So beautiful." Gabrielle and about 19 ...

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I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...

Nearly 80 years ago, a music teacher changed Betty Haag-Kuhnke’s life. As the violin instructor and founder of the acclaimed Arlington Heights music academy that bears her name prepares to retire, the ...

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Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...