A Guide to Choosing the Right Violin Strings
These days, string players face a multitude of choices when it comes to picking violin strings. Here's how to eliminate the guesswork and find the perfect strings for your instrument.
Instruments, Bows, and Gear
Johannes Moser on His 1694 Andrea Guarneri Cello
Cellist Johannes Moser discusses the voice of his 1694 Andrea Guarneri cello, which “has a dark varnish, several procession holes in the back, and was cut smaller and then enlarged.”
A Beginner’s Guide to Tuning Your Cello
Tuning should be the first activity you complete with your cello every day, or every time you get the instrument out. Here's a beginner's guide to tuning your cello.
How Do You Take Care of a Violin?
Do you know how to take care of a violin? Here are 7 ways to treat your instrument with respect, love, care and protect it from harm.
Kremer Pigmente’s 45-year Journey Reproducing Historical Pigments for Violins
Celebrating 45 years of making violin varnish and other products for luthiers and artists, Dr. Georg Kremer has spent a lifetime crafting products that faithfully recreate the past.
How Kristin Zoernig Came to Possess a 375-Year-Old Bass Likely Played at Lincoln’s Inauguration
Kristin Zoernig's 1648 upright bass has an incredible history, but she says the uniqueness of the tone quality this bass possesses is its greatest gift.
Product News: Cloudvocal’s ISOLO VF-10 Violin/Fiddle Wireless System
Cloudvocal's ISOLO VF-10 Violin/Fiddle Wireless System offers both KNA VV-3 piezo pickup and cadioid miking possibilities along with eight built-in effects.
Anne Akiko Meyers’ Thoughts on the 1741 “ex-Vieuxtemps” Guarneri del Gesù
By Anne Akiko Meyers | From the November-December 2022 issue of Strings magazine We asked violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, "Do the spirits of the people who hav... Read More...
Ask the Expert: How to Stop Your Pegs from Slipping
Properly functioning tuning pegs are crucial to a healthy instrument. Here's how to keep them from slipping on your violin, cello, viola and bass.
Kazuto Fukuda Made an Early, If Brief, Foray Into the American Bow-Making Market
Kazuto Fukuda was the first Japanese bow maker to contract with a leading American dealer when he signed a deal with Wurlitzer in 1969.