It’s difficult because making a violin is like a signature. You can’t sign your name slowly. I haven’t got the stamina like I used to, so I do maybe an hour at the bench working and then I sit down ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...

The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren’t on? No worries. They’d still have a job. The whole technological infrastructure ...