When I was learning to play the fiddle as a teenager in the early 2000s, chopping was all the rage. Since then, I’ve wanted to know: How did this happen? How did musicians figure out a totally ...

Sixty people crowded the Metzler Violin Shop on Central Avenue on Sunday to hear musicians play stringed instruments handmade in Italy. The violas, cellos and violins, shipped from Cremona, in ...