Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

Strings, bows and tuning knobs clutter Norm Lambert's daily routine, with his 45 years repairing and rebuilding violins bringing him acclaim as a violin doctor. The Lambert family has lived on a ...

Why do orchestras tune to an ‘A’? Orchestras always tune to concert pitch (usually A=440 Hertz, 440 vibrations per second). Conveniently, every string instrument has an A string. So it makes sense for ...