At just 10 years old, Brandon Hoff picked up a violin and fell in love. Just a few years later, Mark Wood — the inventor of the first solid-body electric violin and world-leading rock violinist — ...

An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same feel as ...

Nina DiGregorio always wanted to play rock and roll — but doing that on the violin wasn’t much of an option when she was growing up in upstate New York, she said. Today, however, she’s known as the ...

For Mia x Ally, an instrumental duo performing at Brighton Music Hall on Jan. 5, it all started with a sea shanty. Mia Asano, a 2022 Berklee of College of Music graduate, had been posting TikTok ...

Lindsey Stirling is one of those entertainers who is so multifaceted, you need to take a full breath to describe all that she is: electric violinist, dancer, YouTube star, composer, author and ...

A good violin is hard to find — and once you've found one, it's usually expensive. But what if a violin could be custom-made for you in a couple days by a 3-D printer? That's the idea behind the ...

Longtime Phoenix music fans will remember Barry Smith of Gentlemen AfterDark, Arizona’s new wave/post-glam legends from the early ’80s. Smith played keyboards, saxophone, and violin for the band, ...

One of the big features in Ubisoft's Rocksmith 2014 is Session Mode. In essence, it turns your gaming console or computer into a virtual jam band that listens to and adapts to how you play. It's ...

When electric violinist Mia Asano and bagpiper Ally Duncan first met in person, they had an instant connection. Both classically trained musicians, they became fast best friends, bonding over a love ...

DALY CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- They're rare and expensive instruments, and a few days ago, the man who's toured the world playing them woke up to find they'd been stolen. Dave Kim has built a career ...