LITTLE ROCK — Picking up a fiddle from his workshop table, Jap Holt explained that it is his “model” for making fiddles. Although Holt doesn’t play the fiddle, he enjoys making the instruments from ...

The art and craft of violin making. He scrapes it, gouges it, and sands it. He bends it, carves it, and colors it. Above all, he listens to it. (Violins playing) At 43, Zygmuntowicz is a leading maker ...

GARRISON -- Arnie Anderson traveled halfway around the world to get an education in making violins. His daughter, Sarah, doesn't even have to leave her house to get the same education. Sarah, 20, has ...

Playing the violin is not one of Bob Gravlin’s talents. Makingthem just might be. That might seem a tad unusual considering Gravlin’s background.He spent 30 years as a Vista firefighter, training ...

Peering into a shiny glass case suspended in an exhibit hall, four curious music lovers examine a violin, soft and warm in color with its delicately detailed scroll and wood grain marks iridescent in ...

CHICAGO -- Paul Becker of Carl Becker & Son in Chicago makes no bones about his father's legacy of violin making. "He was the best in the world. There was no doubt. There was no one who came close to ...

CAMBRIDGE, Minnesota — The strings on his fiddle dance with the bow while Gene Van Alstine waltzes with his past. On a summer afternoon, Gene plays fiddle solo in his workshop a few steps from a ...

This story takes you to Westel, Tennessee, home to the fiddle maker Jean Horner. For more than seventy years, Horner built instruments that traveled across the country—Carnegie Hall to California, the ...

Remo del Tredici began making violins in his 70s. Inspired by his neighbor, a volunteer for AmVets, and the memory of his brother who was killed during WWII, he began giving away his violins to vets.