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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Robert Gordon III tests the tone of a violin he created in his workshop in Belsano, near Ebensburg. Apart from a stint in the U.S. Navy from 1973-79, Gordon has been making violins since the age ...