Using the same "stick-and-slip" technique as a violinist drawing a bow across the strings, the spiny lobster strives for a strikingly different result -- to make a cacophony alarming enough to scare ...

The world’s best violins come with strings made from catgut—which isn’t typically from cats, but does definitely come from the inside of an animal. If you want a more vegetarian alternative, though, ...

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 ...

Dan Larson of Gamut Music at his workshop on Dec. 3 in Duluth. Dan Larson is known worldwide for his violins and lutes. He also makes gut strings that when played can “bring out the soul of man.” 81 ...

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 ...