IT TAKES ABOUT 250 hours to build a violin. The process begins with some choice cuts of maple and spruce, and — if all goes according to plan — ends with a beautiful piece of handicraft that is also a ...

British scientists have created the world’s smallest violin – inside a human hair. Physicists at Loughborough University used cutting-edge nanotechnology to create the minuscule fiddle. The violin is ...

Researchers at the University of Technology in Kielce, south-central Poland, have embarked on a project to help create a ...

LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A violin made by renowned Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari during his 18th century "Golden Period" is heading for auction next month with an estimate of up to a record ...