As a member of the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra, Nick Grinder of Novato has learned that individuals coming together can often create something greater than individuals on their own. "The idea ...

Celebrities such as Britney, Paris, Celine and even the Donald may be luring you to buy their signature perfumes. But for a more enduring kind of art, why not a specially decorated violin? Eleven ...

No strings attached: Symphony fund-raiser selling decorated violins, cello The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony's biggest financial supporter has found a use for instruments that can't make music any more.

eBay is currently auctioning a mother-of-pearl six-pointed star-decorated violin with a starting bid price of $4,800. You have until the end of this week to place your bid. You can see it here ...

The back of the violin is decorated with a Star of David inlaid in abalone shell. According to Ashkenazi, this was a fairly typical ornamentation on violins that belonged to Jewish musicians in the ...

Artist Ellen Langford told me recently that she was painting a violin for a symphony fund-raiser. I thought, "That's nice." I was picturing maybe a canvas with a vase of roses, a velvet curtain ...

This violin was made by Honoré (Jean Joseph) Derazey in Mirecourt, France around 1880. ... led Vuillaume to make decorated copies of violins in similar ornamental style after 1827. By 1830, Honoré ...

The thin ribs of this violin are decorated with a Renaissance-inspired pattern of Stradivari’s own design featuring flowers, vines and animals. The label inside the violin was tampered to say it ...

A Multi-Technique Chemical Characterization of a Stradivari Decorated Violin Top Plate. Applied Physics A- Materials Science & Processing; DOI 10.1007/s00339-013-7792-2.