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 ...

“It’s a nexus of art and history and music and science, and it’s endlessly fascinating,” Indianapolis Violins co-owner Chris Ulbricht says while making a violin from scratch. For 500 years, the way ...

Scott continued making violins, doing part of the work in a workshop behind the house, but most of it at the kitchen table, where he and Dorla can work together. "I make the pegs, the chin rests, tail ...