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“Walking in there was like stepping in time,” James A. Grymes, a University of North Carolina-Charlotte music professor who wrote a book about Violins of Hope, said in an interview.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Uncertainty over tariffs as far back as January prompted Bryce Van Parys, the manager of Hammond Ashley Violins in Issaquah, to make sure his business was well-stocked in advance of Sept. 1.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2019

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

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2017

Now, it’s in pieces, part of a delicate restoration underway at Rare Violins of New York, a shop a block from Carnegie Hall.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 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