BBC News – 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 ...

What do you do when you’re performing a stirring violin solo before a concert crowd, and a string on your instrument suddenly breaks? That’s what happened with violinist Ray Chen, performing Thursday ...

Multiple seasoned musicians are providing a Benzie County area students with a unique opportunity to learn violin.

A Japanese scientist said recently 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 ...