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3D Printed Violins Could Deliver Music into Many More Classrooms With Cheap Price Point

The Acoustical Society of America is 3D-printing violins to make the instrument more affordable for hundreds more children and adults who want to learn...

Coronavirus Patient Who Couldn’t Talk Thanked Hospital Staff With Violin Serenade – WATCH

It started with a note passed to a nurse from his hospital bed in Utah. A retired music teacher was being intubated to help treat...

Determined Not to Lose Her Motor Function, Musician Plays Violin During Brain Surgery (WATCH)

Thousands of people have been captivated by this video of a classical musician playing the violin while surgeons are removing a tumor from her brain.

Master Violinist Performing for Inmates Receives Unexpectedly Enthusiastic Ovation (Watch)

Violinst Gidon Kremer performed Bach for inmates at the Pacific Institution in British Colombia, calling the prisoners more enthusiastic than concertgoers.

After Musician Launches National Plea, He is Finally Reunited With His Beloved 310-Year-old Violin

Since the antique instrument is worth roughly $310,000, Stephen Morris assumed he would never see his precious violin ever again.

London School Transforms Poor Performance by Giving Every Student a Violin—Thanks to Andrew Lloyd Webber

The inner city Frederick Bremer School in London has gone from worst to first after giving violins and flutes to every student, Thanks to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Watch Violinist Play Private Concert For Street Cats in Enchanting Italian Short Film

If you like amusing cat antics, classical music, animated short films, or mysterious Italian tales, then you're bound to love this pawesome video.

Orchestra Replaces Violin For Talented Homeless Man After His Was Stolen (WATCH)

When a thief stole a homeless man’s violin in Canada, a symphony of sympathy led to an orchestra replacing the beloved instrument. Mark Landry woke...
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Stradivarius Hometown in Italy Gets Violin Museum

A city in northern Italy especially noted for its elite stringed-instrument makers, such as Guarneri and Stradivari who began crafting there in the 16th...
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Stradivarius Violin Found On Train, Turned In By Good Samaritan

A Stradivarius violin – possibly worth several million dollars – has been handed in to a lost-and-found office in Switzerland office after a hapless...
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$170,000 Violin Returned to Boston Music Student After Being Left on Bus

Christmas came early for a Boston music student who was reunited with the US$170,000 violin she forgot in the overhead compartment of a regional...
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$16 Million Violin Sold For Charity

A Japanese music foundation has sold a renowned Stradivarius violin for $16 million at auction to raise money for tsunami disaster relief. The nonprofit Nippon...
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Violin Prodigy Plays for Haiti (Video)

Florida violinist Kahane is a brilliant musician at only eight-years-old. She has performed at charity events in the past, but when she heard...
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Trapped Violinist Survives Quake by Visualizing Concertos

A blind violinist was trapped under the support beams of his music school in Haiti for 18 hours, but visualizations of his favorite concertos...
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Half Million Dollar Violin Left in Taxi, Returned to Owner

Yet another inspiring story of an expensive violin or viola left in a NYC cab, but recovered after helpful taxi service kindness....
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Violinist Plays for Those who Saved His Arm

Ken Wollberg, a classically trained violinist, returned to the hospital where surgeons reattached his triceps and tissue to show his appreciation with a concert....
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UPDATE: Violinist Plays Private Concert for Taxi Driver

A violinist who left his $4 million Stradivarius instrument in an airport taxi is playing a private concert today to thank the driver who...
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Violinist Reunited with $4M Stradivarius Left In Back of NJ Cab

A Newark cabbie was honored yesterday by the mayor with a special medallion for reuniting a touring musician with his $4 million violin...

The Violin Femmes

GNN member Helen Kopec wanted us to know about the explosion of talent by top-level violinists on the concert circuit who are young and...

Good News in History, April 22

300 years ago today, Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Prussia. This revolutionary thinker saw rationality as inseparable from morality, and Kant's formulation...