When an expert plays the violin it sounds beautiful and elegant. But when someone is first learning how to play the instrument it can sound like nails on a chalkboard. So if you’re a beginner ...

Laurel Parks instructs the beginner "Drunken Fiddles" class at Belger Crane Yard Studios. Learning to play an instrument as an adult can be difficult, especially when many beginner level classes are ...

Growing up in Oak Park, Sam Walder was a student of the violin beginning at age 4, but as he made his way through the elite Illinois Math & Science Academy and later the University of Illinois' ...

On the ground floor of one of the new computer buildings at the University of Maryland, Anna Kelleher played her centuries-old violin while a program running on a laptop in front of her told her to do ...

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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s a challenge to learn how to play violin at a young age and for Kentrell Amerson it’s even more difficult. That’s because Kentrell has only one hand. Nevertheless, he’s been ...

SAN ANTONIO — Samuel Igbo is good at a lot of things. The Boerne High School teen is an honor student, a member of several school organizations, a karate blackbelt, a track athlete, a short story ...

I started playing violin in 2008. I was 56 years old. My wife and I were on a weekend trip to New York. We had just seen some downtown theater and were making our way back to our hotel. On a mostly ...