[Matt and Kaitlin Hova] have created The Hovalin, an open source 3D-printed violin. Yes, there have been 3D-printed instruments before, but [The Hovas] have created something revolutionary – a 3D ...

How a violin’s f-holes are shaped can influence the instrument’s lowest notes. MIT scientists, along with a Boston-based violin maker, analyzed how air moves through a violin’s f-shaped holes and ...

Researchers using a medical scanner have worked out why a Stradivarius violin sounds so good — it is because of the remarkably even density of the wood. For the past 300 years, musicians and ...

For whatever reason, violins are often at the forefront of futuristic design. But no matter how crazy a violin looks, the only thing that really matters is how it sounds. So while the 3Dvarius, the ...

Teachers losing jobs. Schools losing psychologists. Students losing smaller class sizes. In this era of educational loss, it’s nice to know that despite a historic state budget crunch, every once in a ...

From Tchaikovsky to The Temptations, from Imagine Dragons to Johann Sebastian Bach, music masters Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus collaborate to bring audiences a rare glimpse of an evening of unusual, ...

How do you expect to hold up in about 80 years time? Fairly weathered? Perhaps with some type of in-cranium cyborg implant? If you do end up getting lucky well, well into your autumn years, you’ll ...

Black Violin's Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus met on the first day of orchestra class in 1996 at Dillard High School of the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Classically trained by day, they ...

Viola player Wil Baptiste, known as Wil B, and violinist Kev Marcus, born Kevin Sylvester, of Black Violin have been altering the perception of the string duo since 2004. The native Floridians, ...