YAKIMA — It’s the same instrument. Whether you call it a fiddle or violin is little more than a question of semantics. The real difference is how you play it. And these kids are learning to play ...

Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...