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worst things about playing the violin

The 10 worst things about playing the violin

Charles Barren violin at Dartington

Need some inspiration to keep playing? Here’s a 96-year-old violinist playing Massenet’s Méditation from Thaïs

tchaikovsky violin concerto erhu

Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto played on a Chinese Erhu sounds devastatingly lyrical

Tchaikovsky

Ivry Gitlis concert at 93

This 93-year-old violinist is proof that music never ages and never leaves you

ernst hardest piece violin

We think this is the hardest piece of violin music in existence

violin drop

When your conductor gets a little too close to your priceless 17th century violin…

Nicola Benedetti Glazunov

Nicola Benedetti thinks you need the Glazunov Violin Concerto in your life - and is here to tell why

Nicola Benedetti

old man hospital violin

Here’s proof that the love of music never leaves you

Ayana Tsuji montreal international violin competit

An 18-year-old Japanese violinist has won pretty much everything at the Montreal International Violin Competition

Fedor Rudin montreal competition

Competition violinist: ‘musicians should be competitive with themselves, not with other people’

How to make a violin asset

How to make a violin: a step-by-step guide, from block of wood to beautiful instrument

3dvarius

This 3D-printed violin sounds like an insane metal guitar solo

Adrian Anantawan

This violinist plays one of the most virtuosic solo pieces - and he was born without a right hand

bow break kid

This girl’s reaction to her bow breaking is the sad-cutest thing to ever happen in 12 seconds

Violin

Mum offers reward for return of 19th century violin left on bus by schoolboy

blood on violin

This is what a violinist’s fingers look like after playing Shostakovich

Stradivarius

Violinist leaves $2.6 million Stradivarius on train