A violin and a bow, made by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume in1871, and owned by James Corbett French, was donated to the Music Division in 2000 by his widow, Mildred B. French. French, a professional violinist, tenor soloist, and voice teacher, collected...

Robert Somers Brookings, an economist, founded in 1916 what became the Brookings Institution, a respected private nonprofit public policy organization. He is believed to have acquired this violin in Europe on the advice of Joseph Joachim, the great...

The thief or thieves who stole a white Tesla earlier this month also made off with something much more valuable: a rare 18th-Century violin. The FBI is asking the public to help find a 1710 Amati violin that was stolen on December 8. The Amati family...

A parent grew rather frustrated with me when I did not have a straightforward answer to this question. He'd come up with three "brands" and wanted me to tell him which was the best one, to expedite the process of getting a violin for his child. Also,...