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Mr. Weinstein was the founder of Violins of Hope, an organization that provides the violins he restored to orchestras for concerts and educational programs commemorating the Holocaust.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

For many young Seattle musicians, September means selecting their instrument for the new school year at Bischofberger Violins, where violins, violas and cellos for rent line the walls of rosin-scented rooms.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2019

Violins that were sat on by someone’s little brother.

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2017

He loved music and was good at shop in high school, so in 2004, he talked his way into a job at Potter’s Violins, where he learned the basics of repair.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2016

Violins, horns, drums, speeches—a mouth against a microphone in some faraway yet simultaneous evening—the sorcery of it holds him rapt.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr