That four-string violin from the early 1900s was not playable. It needed work after being closed up in a cabinet for more than 20 years. "It dried and cracked a bit," he said.

She also said Tomi practises the violin for 30 minutes to an hour every day, and has performed for family members on many occasions. ‘Happy Birthday’ is not the only song in his repertoire.

She escaped Nazi Germany with a violin. Decades later, her son took it home Ninety years ago, a Jewish girl fled Nazi Germany with her grandfather’s violin — an instrument she would later play ...

Cellist Klaus Mäkelä was born into a family of musicians and performers, and started conducting at age 12. His mother is a pianist, his father is a cellist, his grandfather plays violin and ...

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Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a Russian, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima ...