Peter Van Arsdale is very good with his hands. A boat builder, massage therapist and Victorian house restorer at one time or another, he now pokes needles into his Berkeley acupuncture patients and ...

He's gone from carving stone animals on his father's farm to one of Britain's most distinguished violin makers, but now a progressive disease is threatening his career. Nick Morrison reports. LATER ...

Tan, a computer science graduate who doesn’t play the violin, once co-owned a music school and helped in his family’s food business. In 2010, a trip to China to restore an old violin sparked his ...

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