In a low-income, rural school district, one superintendent decided to get creative to keep music education alive and accessible for her students.

The violin can cost hundreds of dollars in rental fees during the average school year, but a superintendent at a Pennsylvania school is producing musical instruments at just a fraction of the cost.

This violin was patented by Edward R. Mollenhauer of New York, New York in 1879. This patent violin received U.S. patent number 218,761 on August 19, 1879. The patent describes an improvement to the ...