Following is a transcription of the video. Narrator: In 2017, a single violin bow sold at auction for $690,000. You can buy a beginner's bow for less than $50, but a top-rate professional bow can ...

If Marvin Freeman had not become a Major League Baseball pitcher, he may just have ended up making violin bows for a living. When Freeman was a student at Chicago Vocational High School, he studied ...

If you want to learn about violins and the bows that make them sing, you’ll want to catch up with Elizabeth Vander Veer Shaak. Shaak is shop owner and bow maker at Mount Airy Violins & Bows on ...

Watching Yasuoki Tanaka work is like stepping back in time. Surrounded by hand tools and little vials of resin-colored liquids in the workshop at his Columbia home, he combs out strands of thick, ...

Have you ever yearned to play a violin like Leila Josefowicz or Paul Zukofsky but can't get beyond annoying scratchy squeals? Dr Dylan Menzies of the De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K., says ...

Frank Passa, an internationally known maker of bows and violins, died Sept. 11 in Santa Rosa after a long illness. He was 85. A native of New York City, Mr. Passa served in the Army during World War ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) - The owner of two valuable violin bows claims an auctioneer sold his bows and kept the $240,000 from the sale. He claims the bows have "significantly increased in value" since the ...

In 2005, violinist Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester and viola player Wilner “Wil B” Baptiste worked up the gumption to compete as the Black Violin duo in the “Showtime at the Apollo” contest in Harlem’s ...

A musical craftsman has had a unique collection of antique violin bows worth a £110,000 stolen after he left them on a train. Police are desperately attempting to track down the 11 precious 19th ...