Bud Larsen built his first Hardanger fiddle when he was in the seventh grade. Now 80 years old, he’s built more than 40 of the instruments and repaired well over 100. He learned the craft from Gunnar ...

When two engineering students at the University of Southern California set out last summer to build a violin from rolls of carbon-fiber cloth, a local violin maker shook his head in disbelief. Six ...

It took a little fiddling for a Dorrance Twp. man to find his lifelong passion of making musical works of beauty Martin Korchnak saws away on a fiddle he built several years ago. clark van orden ...

A West Texas man chipped away at the project for decades. When he died in 2018, the violin was still unfinished — a bunch of carefully crafted parts in a box. Robert Hunter wasn't famous. The man who ...