At just 10 years old, Brandon Hoff picked up a violin and fell in love. Just a few years later, Mark Wood — the inventor of the first solid-body electric violin and world-leading rock violinist — ...

Time was when violin playing delighted the eye as well as the ear. According to an awed contemporary, the great Italian Virtuoso Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) startled his audiences with eyes “as red ...

Silverman s electric violin, like the acoustic violin, is tuned in fifths. The upper four strings are the same as that of a traditional violin, E-A-D-G. Added to them are a lower C, giving it a viola ...