Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Within hours of arriving at Fiddle Camp in Stillwater this week, students were learning the art of improvising from two masters.

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 ...

Lyle Reedy is crafting his 55th fiddle. Each one turns out a little different. And each one is hard to let go. After investing 200 hours of intricate, detailed work on an instrument, Reedy can’t help ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Bud Larsen built his first Hardanger fiddle when he was in the seventh grade. Now 80 years old, he’s built more than 40 of the instruments and repaired well over 100. He learned the craft from Gunnar ...

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 ...