Bud Larsen built his first Hardanger fiddle when he was in the seventh grade. Now 80 years old, he’s built more than 40 of the instruments and repaired well over 100. He learned the craft from Gunnar ...

For one whole week at the end of March, from early every morning until late at night, Jacob Brillhart livestreamed himself from his violin-making workshop in Chelsea, Vermont. The videos archived on ...

Don’t mind the violins yet. There are other things to look at. A VCR and a stereo and outdated wall calendars. Concert invites dating to the early 2000s. Thank- you notes spanning just as long. An old ...

Ed Bassett has spent a lifetime building beautiful things, so when the now 85-year-old craftsman was searching for a hands-on project seven years ago after his wife died, it’s probably no surprise he ...

A West Texas man chipped away at the project for decades. When he died in 2018, the violin was still unfinished — a bunch of carefully crafted parts in a box. Robert Hunter wasn't famous. The man who ...

When two engineering students at the University of Southern California set out last summer to build a violin from rolls of carbon-fiber cloth, a local violin maker shook his head in disbelief. Six ...

Don’t mind the violins yet. There are other things to look at. A VCR and a stereo and outdated wall calendars. Concert invites dating to the early 2000s. Thank- you notes spanning just as long. An old ...