A Japanese scientist said Tuesday 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 strands can be wound ...

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 ...

Thousands of the tiny strands can be wound together to produce a strong but flexible string that is perfect for the instrument, said Shigeyoshi Osaki, professor of polymer chemistry at Nara Medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(yuck) ....sorry I just can't stand them! So you would rather prefer sheep gut? I find that a bit more disturbing image. Also, from resource availability point of ...