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 ...

3D printing can be used for bringing all manner of innovative projects to life — and University of Texas student Sean Riley’s latest creation is just one more piece of compelling evidence. Riley, an ...

Tokyo A Japanese scientist said he has made violin strings out of spider silk and claims that – in the right hands – they produce a beautiful sound. Thousands of the tiny silk strands can be wound ...

This video of Laurent Bernadac, an engineer and lifelong musician, playing the violin looks and sounds very little like a person playing the violin. For one thing, he’s also using a looper and effects ...

More than 300 spiders were used to generate the thousands of strands of silk making up each string A Japanese researcher has used thousands of strands of spider silk to spin a set of violin strings.

For whatever reason, violins are often at the forefront of futuristic design. But no matter how crazy a violin looks, the only thing that really matters is how it sounds. So while the 3Dvarius, the ...

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 ...

Because what else would a luthier in lockdown do? While some people have taken up baking in the last few months, or mastered at-home DIY, one luthier decided to continue her usual day job – but with a ...

The violin made of ivory remains a testimony to the collaboration between the Western and Carnatic music. A visitor to the ancient house of the Thanjavur Quartet — Chinnaya, Ponnaiya, Sivanandam and ...