From a collection of bows hung on music stand in his living room, Tom Carlson carefully pulls one out, tightening the ribbon of horsehair until taut. Next, he turns to a row of violins sitting ...

Range A violin can play from the G below middle C, known as G3, up to a high E two octaves above its highest string, known as E7. Each of the four strings is tuned a fifth apart, making up the notes G ...

"Ah but also the tighter the stringis the higher the note it makes." So on this violin if I pluck this string then listen to the sound it makes. So the pitch of a note dependson three different ...

concept — that the spectrum of subatomic particles can be imagined as strings vibrating at different frequencies, like the notes played on a violin. No wonder then, that such a (seemingly ...

String Theory at the Hunter ... Ballade,” Chris Rogerson’s “Arietta for Violin and Piano,” and César Franck’s “Violin Sonata.” Mr. Beilman has received international praise for ...