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Jacie Sites doesn’t just play the fiddle — she commands it, dazzling listeners with her speed, skill and love for traditional ...
A West Texas man chipped away at the project for decades. When he died in 2018, the violin was still unfinished — a bunch of carefully crafted parts in a box.
A celebrated East Tennessee woodworker almost saw his fiddle making hobby end before he finished his first one. “I’ll never forget my wife said, you are going to wear that fiddle if you get ...
Violins cost more.” In 1951, that Stradivarius manual offered details of fiddle making he’d hungered to understand. “I’ve always been a great believer in books,” Horner said. “And when I seen that ...
Adam's violin-making shop is tucked in behind Day Murray Music, a business that doesn't quite date back to Napoleon but, nonetheless, is one of the oldest businesses in Murray.
A s department head of violin making and repair at North Bennet Street School for traditional crafts and trades, Roman Barnas likens his teaching to training athletes, “because the body position ...