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 ...

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 ...

Sam Zygmuntowicz, a 40-something Brooklynite and the center of John Marchese’s nonfiction book “The Violin Maker,” has been asking questions about the centuries-old craft of violin-making. Those ...

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 ...

To be fair, he only had six years to collect them and more than 50 years for them to fade. Still, Thomas "Ben" Hooks said he was indoctrinated throughout his life with tales of his famous great-uncle, ...

Violin makers don’t usually take apprentices: They prefer to focus on their craft over training their future competition. It’s even rarer to train more than one at a time. But William Bartruff is ...

Sam Zygmuntowicz, 50, the subject of John Marchese's book, "The Violin Maker," lives and works on a quiet street in Brooklyn lined with classic brownstones and townhouses. If you pass through a small ...

For 500 years, violin-makers have crafted their instruments by hand. But for the past three years, three Minnesotans have been crafting them with the help of a CT scanner and computer-aided machine.

Brooklyn-based violin maker Samuel Zygmuntowicz has already had a book written about him called “The Violin Maker.” But why read the book when you can just watch filmmaker Dustin Cohen’s short, ...

The Violin Makers Association of Arizona International will hold its 50th anniversary convention in Tucson next week, attracting luthiers from around the U.S. and Canada. Crafters will converge on the ...

Hermann Bischofberger would hold up the violins, one after the other, pluck their strings, turn them over and trace their outline. He was a violin maker, and his love for the instruments was visible.