An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same feel as ...

Nina DiGregorio always wanted to play rock and roll — but doing that on the violin wasn’t much of an option when she was growing up in upstate New York, she said. Today, however, she’s known as the ...

A good violin is hard to find — and once you've found one, it's usually expensive. But what if a violin could be custom-made for you in a couple days by a 3-D printer? That's the idea behind the ...

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 ...