Gabrielle Sirmans, 9, couldn't wait to meet her violin. Once she did, she couldn't wait to learn how to play it. "It's music," she said, grinning with pure joy. "So beautiful." Gabrielle and about 19 ...

I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...

Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

EAST SPENCER — JaQuan Jackson didn’t have a problem identifying the musical note when asked by music instructor Karen Franks. The 17-year-old easily answered several questions during an afternoon ...

Multiple seasoned musicians are providing a Benzie County area students with a unique opportunity to learn violin.

Frank Polidora always loved violin music, but he never had time to learn the instrument when he was a practicing physician. Jim Depristo was a musician all of his life, but never learned to play the ...

The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax More summer essentials I knew the violin was an unforgiving instrument but I had always ...