Ciao! to the OG violin makers

"Music is about devotion, and knowing when to be free." 7/19/17 Welcome to the City of Violins Cremona, Italy, is a city with a very special (and very musical) history. It's a city of master craftsmen who specialize in one thing—violins. The northern Italian city is credited as the birthplace of the string instrument and remains home to Stradivari, maker of some of the world's most coveted and expensive violins. To this day, more than 100 traditional violin makers carry on that legacy. This Great Big Story was inspired by Genesis. Making Her Own Waves: The Woman Revolutionizing Big Wave Surfing Bianca Valenti is a San Francisco-based professional surfer who rides some of the world's biggest waves. When she first took on Mavericks—notoriously difficult surf just south of San Francisco—she almost drowned. But that experience, coupled with her drive to overcome sexist stereotypes about female surfers, only motivated Valenti to become a better surfer. Playing Against Type: The Typewriter Orchestra For pre-digital natives, there's nothing quite as nostalgia-inducing as the manual "click," "clack" and "ding" sounds of an old mechanical typewriter. That's why The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is making these old machines quite literally "sing" again. Copyright © 2017 Great Big Story, LLC, All rights reserved.You are receiving this message because you subscribed to the Great Big Story newsletter. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list