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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is a house of music. The three daughters in the family play violin. The mother is a violin maker who creates her magic in a shop in back of the house Up to six hours a day, the beautiful sounds of ...

Touring musician and composer Ray Suen was able to replace his broken five-string violin with a newer model designed by the ...

A Japanese researcher has used thousands of strands of spider silk to spin a set of violin strings. The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" relative to traditional gut or steel ...

Gary Bartig helped save the show for David Byrne's musical director when the former Talking Heads frontman played a pair of ...