In the Path of a Raging Wildfire, a Luthier’s Precious Wood

Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the spruce and maple for string instruments worthy of Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel.
GIGAZINE

Movie of cello craftsmen who put the process of making stringed instrument "cello" from wood shavings to string tension

A string instrument "Cello" which is larger than the violin and slightly smaller than the contrabass is a musical instrument with four strings and bass echoes. A cello craftworker cut out timber, ...
Time

Instruments: The Little Wooden Song Box

The lordly violin and its less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble. As today’s concert halls grow more cavernous, it becomes increasingly difficult for a solo violinist to ...
Billings Gazette

For John Kirk it's a symphony in spruce

Beautiful music from a stringed instrument starts with good wood. Stringed-instrument maker John Kirk knows the tone a violin, viola or cello will have before he begins to carve it. He takes the ...
Morning Call PA

‘When Wood Sings: An Exhibit of Orchestral String Instruments and Bows’

When one thinks “violin,” the images that come to mind are the Stradivari and Guarneri instruments. When one thinks “violinist,” it is usually the superstar concert soloist – the Hilary Hahns, the ...