Jascha Heifetz's violin came out to play Sunday afternoon, and for once it didn't hog the spotlight. Instead, the high point of this chamber recital, presented by the San Francisco Symphony at the ...

Guarneri violins now routinely sell for between $10 million and $20 million. The new analysis could also provide a more objective way to rate violin quality. "For 400 years, ...

What gives a violin made by Antonio Stradivari or Guarneri del Gesu its remarkable sound? Researchers have examined the wood preservatives, varnish, even the effects of the Little Ice Age on the ...

The great violin makers, such as Stradivari and Guarneri, may have designed violins to mimic the human voice, new research suggests. IE 11 is not supported.

Stradivari had a contemporary, a fellow northern Italian named Giuseppe Guarneri, who came close: Guarneri violins, also produced in the early 1700s, remain popular among expert players as well.

The violin was made in 1736 by Italian luthier Giuseppe Guarneri, the third generation of his family to make stringed instruments, who worked as craftsman for only 16 years before dying fairly young.

A rare, nearly 300-year-old violin that has been in the collection of the late businessman Sau-Wing Lam and exhibited twice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be auctioned at ...

Some of the most sought-after violins on the planet may owe their sounds to deworming chemicals used by their Italian manufacturers 300 years ago.

The great violin makers, such as Stradivari and Guarneri, may have designed violins to mimic the human voice, new research suggests. Virtuosos who describe the singing voice of a violin may be on ...