Amazing fiddle tales
The Chicago Tribune's William Mullen reports on a couple of violin makers who took the "Vieuxtemps" Guarneri del Gesu 
(1741), considered by some to be the greatest fiddle ever made, to Northwestern University Hospital for a CT scan, hoping to find out what makes it great:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/ct-talk-ct-scan-violin-20100318,0,302433.story
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Minnesota Orchestra violinist Roger Frisch played his instrument while undergoing brain surgery to ease tremors in his right hand, ABC News reports (with video):
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/WorldNews/cutting-edge-treating-tremors-deep-brain-stimulation/story?id=10138705
