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, ...

What type of cats were originally used to make catgut suture material (stitches), and violin strings? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn ...

NARA, Japan, March 5 (UPI) -- A Japanese researcher says thousands of strands of spider silk spun into a set of violin strings can yield a "preferable" timbre for many musicians. The way the strings ...

Guest host Linda Wertheimer reports on a Japanese researcher who has used spider silk to spin a set of violin strings. It's hard to tell the difference - and I'm not sure I can - but we're listening ...

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 ...

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 ...