Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This video of Laurent Bernadac, an engineer and lifelong musician, playing the violin looks and sounds very little like a person playing the violin. For one thing, he’s also using a looper and effects ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X To celebrate 20 years of music education, 20 violins display. West Side Story, Here Comes the Sun, ...

Dr. Laura Jacob, superintendent of the California Area School District in Coal Center, Pennsylvania, has 30 3D printers in her office. While she does enjoy 3D printing as a hobby, these printers ...

Researchers have shown that recently-made violins have better sound projection than those built by the famous violinmaker Antonio Stradivarius. This study also shows that, despite the prestige of ...

A soggy wooden board carpeted in soft white fungi doesn't look like much, but in the right hands it can become a world class violin. According to a recent sound test before about 180 people, two fungi ...

When Jazmin Morenzi was in the first grade, she walked past the music room at Stevenson Lower School and saw older kids practicing their violins. Thinking they looked really cool, she told her parents ...

In Skylight Theatre's latest show, Fiddler on the Roof, perhaps the most powerful piece of storytelling is truly instrumental. Two violins, played both on and off stage, survived the Holocaust. They ...