Antonio Stradivari's house in the heart of Cremona is a disgrace. The street-level floor has been turned over to a kitchenware shop plastered with discount signs. The three upper floors look abandoned ...

As a teenager in South Korea, Ayoung An decided to become a violin maker. Her journey eventually took her to Cremona, Italy, a famed hub for masters like Antonio Stradivari. Credit... Supported by ...

It's been four decades since Bernard Neumann left Montreal for Cremona, Italy, to study violin making. The now-renowned luthier, as a violin-maker is called, still draws daily inspiration from his ...

Music lovers and musicians gathered at the Metzler Violin Shop on Sunday to listen to the sound of more than 40 modern Italian violins during the Tenth Annual Traveling Cremona Exhibition and Sale.

Working in the shadow of the great masters, the violin-makers of Italy's Cremona are valiantly fighting a shrinking market and foreign competition as they seek perfection, one violin at a time. The ...

In the medieval Italian city that gave the world the famed Stradivarius violin, Bill Whitaker finds artisans still at work trying to replicate the precious sound of the million-dollar instrument known ...

Creating an instrument with such depth of character relies on centuries of tradition - most of which belongs to the small town of Cremona in northern Italy. And on the shelf is stored an exotic ...

Cremona in northern Italy is a centre of violin making but can a niche industry survive in the modern world of mass production? Show more Cremona in northern Italy is the original home of the ...