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Offbeat Super Bowl
August 7, 2026
Coco Jones and the Color of Noize delivering the black national anthem, "Lift every heart and sing", at the 2026 Super Bowl in San Francisco. […]
The Silakowski Five-String Project
June 7, 2025
John Silakowski (1949-2022) was a violinmaker in Scottsburg, Indiana. He was the first violinmaker to make purpose built five-strings for fiddlers. He was quite productive […]
The Unicursal Fiddle
August 4, 2024
This fiddle is the second in a series exploring the sources of variety that we see in violins. A broader discussion of the ideas behind […]
Twisted! An Unresolved Tale
March 26, 2024
Un-Natural. Playing the violin in the conventional manner requires some rather un-natural contortions. The left elbow is held more or less directly below the violin […]
A Bent-Top Parlor Guitar
December 13, 2023
I wanted a guitar that played like an electric, but one that I didn't have to plug into an amplifier to hear. What I enjoy […]