The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects ...

The Violins of Hope reveal themselves as many antiques do. Sometimes people move house, or clean out attics or basements, or ...

She brought the instrument to a luthier who said that it was in such bad shape, it would make more sense for her to buy a new one. But when she told him the story of her family, and the violin ...

Hargrave, 51, is a luthier the term used for professional crafters of bowed instruments such as violins, violas and cellos. And while Hargrave isn’t yet mentioned in the same breath as Antonio ...

Robert Gordon III is a second-generation luthier, the official title of a violin maker. As a child, he watched his father create violins, bringing the musical instruments to life from what ...

In the 1980s, an Auschwitz survivor brought his damaged violin to the Tel Aviv workshop of Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein. That encounter planted the seed for Violins of Hope, Weinstein’s ...

It was later finished by a luthier in Oxford before being bought by folk musician Sam Sweeney in 2009. Mr Sweeney played the violin at Pte Howard's grave in Ypres. He said: "It was incredible.

Nazis pounded on the door and confiscated the treasured violin, throwing it onto a flatbed truck, breaking its string, and ...

A violin in the raw sits on a work bench beside ... Joel Thompson. Thompson is a “luthier,” a craftsperson who builds and repairs stringed instruments that are played with a bow or plucked.