Charlotte would be proud. A Japanese researcher has spun thousands of strands of spider silk into a set of violin strings. The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" compared to ...

Violin strings are not now and have never been made from cat gut, whatever that is. Violin strings used to be made from sheep guts. Makes sense, ...

Mrs Mullova, 52, who uses a 1750 Guadagnini violin with gut strings, added: "You can't avoid using gut strings for the Baroque repertoire. "It would be like telling pop stars they couldn't use ...

Gut Strings and Humanism: A Chat With Renaissance Violinist David Douglass. A conversation with violinist and concert curator, David Douglass. ... regardless of how much I read up on music theory or ...

Specifically, the violin strings were created using dragline silk, which spiders use to dangle from hanging objects ... though are still not as strong as traditional gut strings.

The thickest, the G string, contains 15,000 filaments. Compared with strings made of steel, nylon and gut, Osaki says that the spider silk has a unique and “brilliant” timbre, or tone.

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 ...