MOORHEAD – If you didn’t know Sonja Harasim was talking about her violin, you might assume she was talking about a person. It has a birthday. It got a one-year checkup. It matures with age. “Obviously ...

Physicists at Loughborough University have used cutting-edge nanotechnology to create what they believe may be ‘the world’s smallest violin’, which is small enough to fit within the width of a human ...

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Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...

The violin glows in its case in a Nashville apartment. "It's golden sunshine," says luthier Amanda Ewing. Even before she started forming the block of spruce into an instrument, Ewing knew she didn't ...

Physicists at Loughborough University in England have built what they believe to be the world’s smallest violin — so small that it could sit within a width of a human hair. Made from platinum and ...