We call violins, violas, cellos and basses a “family” of strings, but they’re more like fraternal than identical twins. Each has a distinct timbre that comes through whenever they play as a group.

When most people stare into the strings of a violin or other symphonic instruments, the thought of classical music is likely to come to mind. But that is completely untrue for the Orlando-based string ...

BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...