By Greg Olwell Violins have never been safer than they are right now. Manufacturers employ an abundance of luxurious materials to swaddle your beloved violi... Read More...
By Greg Cahill What’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 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...
By Stephanie Powell BAM Cases has released Gigs by BAM, an app for smartphones that allows users to track the location of their musical instruments at all t... Read More...
It's every musician's worst travel nightmare: that a valuable instrument will be damaged or lost in transit.
That nightmare came true in early January for My... Read More...
By Cristina Schreil
It began with purple
Katja Goetz, who took over BAM in 2011 with her husband Robert, explains that founders Laurence and Philippe de Trogo... Read More...
By Glenn P. Wood
It could be argued that the golden-period violin cases were made by Stradivari but an equally powerful argument could be made for those crea... Read More...
Text and images by Dimitri Musafia The ‘Milan’ Stradivari case
The many similarities with another example exhibited at the Chi Mei Museum in Taiwan provi... Read More...