6 Ways to Protect Your Instrument from Damaging Winter Chill
Winterizing your fiddle will stabilize it and ensure that your fiddle survives the season's humidity changesBy Erin ShraderStringed instruments are happiest... Read More...
Nick Grizzle
Instrument-Care Basics—Advice from the Experts
You've just brought home your first stringed instrument. You might be tempted to take it out of its case just to admire it, to imagine all the happy times ahea... Read More...
Keep Connected: Israel Philharmonic Celebrates Passover with Holiday Medley
With Passover beginning April 8, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has released a medley of classic holiday tunes recorded by musicians at home in self-quarant... Read More...
Keep Connected: Jupiter String Quartet (And Little Friends) Play ‘Don’t Worry’
Looking for something to do with your kids during the quarantine? Maybe just looking for something to focus their attention and nonstop energy? Maybe they'll b... Read More...
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra’s Virtual Beethoven 9 is Exactly What We Need Right Now
On March 20, members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra got together (virtually!) to record “the moment” from the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphon... Read More...
Restringing Your Instrument: A Refresher Course & Tips from the Pros
By Emily WrightThe basic order of operations for installing a string is simple enough. Secure one end through the tailpiece, thread the other end through t... Read More...
Score Writing with Fountain Pens: The Return of a Lost Art
By Laurence VittesWith the advent of software like Sibelius and Finale, the use of physical rather than virtual writing instruments to write out scores see... Read More...
A Fringe Violin Festival in Utrecht: Reporting from the 27th Netherlands Violin Competition
By Laurence VittesDuring the last week of the 27th Netherlands Violin Competition last month, four young Dutch virtuosos curated four concerts in and aroun... Read More...
How to Buy a Violin or Viola Case
By Greg CahillWhat’s the best violin or viola case? The answer is, well, complicated. Cases come in a variety of shapes and sizes and prices. There are hun... Read More...
Eastman Debuts Electro Acoustic Series, Cello Cases, & Bass Extensions at NAMM 2020
Eastman Strings showed its new Electro Acoustic series at NAMM 2020, available as an option in any Eastman Step Up model for a $200 upcharge. The pickup is in ... Read More...
