Sherlock Holmes is in his ­living room, playing Bach. I study his movements, his bow-arm and his fingers. I am working as Benedict Cumberbatch's violin coach and they're filming scenes for series two ...

During July this year, a news story caught our attention as a case worthy of Sherlock Holmes himself. It involved the return of a stolen Stradivarius violin, having gone missing two years prior from a ...

LONDON A violin made from a tree in the garden of Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's childhood home has been handed over to the University of Edinburgh instrument collection and will be used for ...

Benedict Cumberbatch compared the difficulty, and "fakery," of playing the banjo on-set for "The Power of the Dog" to his time playing the violin for the BBC drama "Sherlock." Cumberbatch plays Phil ...

In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, was published after a long period of rejections. The detective finally made his debut that November in the Beeton’s ...

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A violin made from a tree in the garden of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's childhood home is to be played to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth. The violin was carved from the sycamore tree by ...

The "Sherlock" violin will be housed at the University of Edinburgh's musical instrument collection A violin made from a tree at author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's childhood home has been handed over to ...