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 ...

Vermont luthier Jacob Brillhart is volunteering to build a violin this month, as part of an effort to raise money for musicians hit hard by the... Apr 03, 2020 — Vermont luthier Jacob Brillhart is ...

Don’t mind the violins yet. There are other things to look at. A VCR and a stereo and outdated wall calendars. Concert invites dating to the early 2000s. Thank- you notes spanning just as long. An old ...

For one whole week at the end of March, from early every morning until late at night, Jacob Brillhart livestreamed himself from his violin-making workshop in Chelsea, Vermont. The videos archived on ...

Ed Bassett has spent a lifetime building beautiful things, so when the now 85-year-old craftsman was searching for a hands-on project seven years ago after his wife died, it’s probably no surprise he ...

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 ...

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 ...

JB Violins is tucked into a small building off Alley 38, just south of West Bonita Avenue in Claremont. One might expect its location in Claremont is the result of the arts-friendly college culture of ...

Don’t mind the violins yet. There are other things to look at. A VCR and a stereo and outdated wall calendars. Concert invites dating to the early 2000s. Thank- you notes spanning just as long. An old ...