In 1993, Cal Meineke, a doctor with a talent for playing the violin, set out to solve a perplexing mystery: Why do some stringed instruments produce a heartbreakingly beautiful sound, while other ...

If you can't afford it, or just can't find it — make it; motto of Sam Goodall. The violinist had long wanted a five-string fiddle, "I joked I had C-string envy," she says. But under the tutelage ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...