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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

16th size violin at Shaker Violin Repair. From his homestead on the icy southern banks of the Mohawk River in Latham, Stephen Iachetta is building his second career running Shaker Violin Repair.

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 ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...