When Charis Gonyo picks up her violin to play with the North Scott Junior High School Orchestra, she picks up a piece of family history.

The violin by the famed Italian luthier was plundered at the end of World War II and presumed lost or destroyed. Now experts ...

Pete Sand, Moorhead, just had his Grandpa Arnie's violin restored and had a professional violinist record music with it, as part of a Christmas present for his mother.

The clip showcases Yi Xuan’s three-year-old son Tomi playing a pitch-perfect rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ on the violin for his grandfather. The video has gone viral with over 106K views.

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 ...

A new grandfather played his family's favorite song to his new granddaughter on the harmonica. After hearing the song she immediately smiled after being played the tune while she was in the womb.

Here's why: Their family history is ingrained in the instrument. Corynn's great-great-great grandfather Al Smith started playing that violin around the turn of the last century near Ashland.

Watch below as a three-year-old girl sits down at the piano with her great-grandfather, 100-year-old veteran Harold Chilton, for an improvised piano duet.

This means continuing to play his great-great-grandfather’s violin, a rare Stradivarius with (we soon learn) a complicated history.

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 ...