The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

Originally from Poland, the North Bennet Street School department head of violin making and repair is an expert in the ...

Just after the eerie opening (with some of the strings muted, the rest shivering on the bridges of their instruments) the orchestral violins, violas and cellos have to ‘thrum’ a tremolo with ...