When Amnon Weinstein first heard the words "grandfather" and "grandmother" they felt foreign to him. Confusing. In the young boy's class of 35 students in Israel, only one child had grandparents.

A violin’s soul? Living instruments? Talking wood? There was nothing ordinary about this 60 Minutes trip to the birthplace of the violin A visit to the birthplace of the violin -- a small town in ...

Dr Paul Wingfield never imagined that attending his brother-in-law's wake would lead him to authenticate a violin once owned ...

For more than 20 years, Tel Aviv violin maker Amnon Weinstein and his son Avshalom have collected and restored instruments played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust — instruments often lost or ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Violins of Hope is a collection of 70 restored string instruments that were played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. They've traveled the world, and next month ...

The "Violins of Hope" we're about to hear are from a time when hope seem to be all but lost. Serena Altschul has the story: When members of the Cleveland Orchestra recently sat down to perform, they ...

Amnon Weinstein first encountered a violin from the Holocaust 50 years ago. He was a young violin maker in Israel, and a customer brought him an old instrument in terrible condition and wanted it ...

Over at the University of New Mexico (UNM), a select number of students each semester have the opportunity to learn how to ...

Some violins rose in the ranks and others fell, but the new ones maintained their lead over the old. “There is certainly no evidence here to support the belief that Old Italian violins come into their ...

One by one, they arrived in a Tel Aviv violin maker’s studio: broken, scratched and disfigured, as damaged as their former owners, but also cherished before the tragedy of the Holocaust irrevocably ...

The old adage tells us not to judge a book by its cover, and now it seems as though we shouldn’t judge a violin by its price. Violins crafted in the so-called "golden age" by expert makers Antonio ...

David Bromberg is best known as a guitar virtuoso, who has collaborated with Bob Dylan and George Harrison and fronted his own band. But he's also a collector of American violins, and his collection ...