This informative article on the violin and viola includes the advantages and disadvantages of choosing to play one of these instruments. This website includes information on playing, maintaining, and repairing the violin and viola....

Famous people who played the viola include Haydn, Jimi Hendrix, and Dudley Herschback, a Harvard professor.

Learn general information about various string instruments, including the viola and cello, and hear audio clips to hear what these instruments sound like when played.

Website devoted to teaching strings by the Suzuki method. A good site, but most useful to the membership.

Read this magazine article to learn about string instruments such as the violin including how it is made, how it is played, and how it works.

This informative article on the violin and viola includes the advantages and disadvantages of choosing to play one of these instruments. This website includes information on playing, maintaining, and repairing the violin and viola....

An image of "Boy Playing a Violin", created by Frans Hals from 1625-30 (Oil on panel , 18,4 x 18,8 cm).

An image of "St Francis with an Angel Playing Violin", created by Guercinoz (Oil on canvas, 162 x 127 cm).

Kathleen Parlow was dubbed the "world's greatest woman violinist". She studied violin in the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, the only girl in a class of 45 and the first foreigner to be accepted. As her career developed, she...

A brief biography of Ottorino Respighi (1870-1936 CE), Italian musician/composer studied violin, viola, and composition. He became a professor of composition in Rome after many years of playing with the Opera Orchestra in St. Petersburg,...

An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Musical Instruments.

Kathleen Parlow was dubbed the "world's greatest woman violinist". She studied violin in the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, the only girl in a class of 45 and the first foreigner to be accepted. As her career developed, she...