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The history of violin playing, from its origins to 1761 and its relationship to the violin and violin music [by] David D. Boyden

Part four: The culmination of the early history of violin playing, 1700-1761. Introduction: the 'evolution of progress' theory, a summary view of the violin -- The violin and bow of the early ...
The Island Packet

What unites is stronger than what divides: Hilton Head’s ‘Violin Guy’ shares holiday joy

Music knows no language. It knows no race, salary, nationality or divide. It doesn’t care about status, situation or stature, education or gender. From sold out gilded concert halls to ...
news.iastate.edu

With fixed-up violin donations, retired professor pays forward a passion for playing

AMES, Iowa – Paul Lasley still remembers how he felt playing the only conspicuously silver-colored metal clarinet in the elementary school band. Lasley’s parents couldn’t afford an instrument when the ...
WTOP News

Malaysia’s first professional violin maker carves out a rare craft

SELANGOR, Malaysia (AP) — Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate strokes. The work is meditative, out of the ...
Houston Chronicle

Malaysia's first professional violin maker carves out a rare craft

SELANGOR, Malaysia (AP) — Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate strokes. The work is meditative, out of the ...