Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

Countless strands of spider silk have been spun by a Japanese researcher to create a set of violin strings. The strings apparently have a "soft and profound timbre" compared to the traditional gut or ...

Spider silk is turning out to be a remarkably versatile material. Aside from having a higher heat conductivity than any other organic matter and proteins for inserting genes into cells, strings from a ...

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Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Spiders might soon give you goosebumps in a good way. Strands of spider silk have been used to make violin strings that have a unique and thrilling sound, thanks perhaps to the way the strands deform ...

The micronium is a musical instrument with strings a millionth of an inch thick, and thanks to some nifty engineering it’s the tiniest instrument ever producing audible notes. This really is the world ...