An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same feel as ...

It all started for me when I had a dream in 8th grade that I was on stage in front of thousands of people playing the violin. I acted upon that dream and began to play my ninth-grade year in high ...

At just 10 years old, Brandon Hoff picked up a violin and fell in love. Just a few years later, Mark Wood — the inventor of the first solid-body electric violin and world-leading rock violinist — ...

A good violin is hard to find — and once you've found one, it's usually expensive. But what if a violin could be custom-made for you in a couple days by a 3-D printer? That's the idea behind the ...

The violin comes with a relatively hollow body made through generative design, which still provides strength with minimal use of material. The 3D printed generative frame sits on a carbon fiber body, ...

Manufacturers are getting nervous as 3D printers are getting more and more skilled at perfectly recreating every last detail of a physical object. But on the flip side of that coin is the possibility ...

Many of my students were playing violin when they were in the high school, and they forget about it when entered into the college life and once again they want to make the electric violin playing the ...

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March 26, 2006 The violin is one of the oldest of instruments with roots going back 7000 years, arriving in its current form 500 years ago. So classically trained musician Tricia Ho felt that it was ...