WASHINGTON — Robert Prevost has been elected as the first American pope, and made his first public appearance since donning the robes of the pontiff Thursday afternoon to address the crowd waiting to ...

ROME, Italy — When a new pope is needed, the College of Cardinals gather at the Vatican to vote and colored smoke flows out of the Sistine Chapel’s chimney depending on the result — but what does it ...

The Vatican’s age-old tradition of using smoke signals to announce the outcome of papal elections has received a modern scientific upgrade. For centuries, the faithful looked to the Sistine Chapel’s ...

A man who pretended to be an instrument collector in order to steal over $300,000 of violins and bows has been sentenced to 46 months in prison. Mark Meng, from California, also robbed a bank and ...

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Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This bow was made by Albert H. Karr in Kansas City, Missouri, around 1940-1945. It is made of Pernambuco wood, with a ...

October 26, 2023, 6:06 PM · Violinists hold the bow in a very particular way, and for good reasons. If you can set up your bow hand and train your muscles correctly, you can develop flexible but ...

1. Choose the right violin size: Select a violin suited to your age, arm length, and hand size. Children generally require smaller violins. 2. Get a tuner and rosin: Use a chromatic tuner to tune your ...

The bow debuted in the hands of the concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec; an orchestra that lost its guest conductor to cancer last year. A cancer patient in Canada made an incredibly ...