A good violin depends on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of th Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science ...

What makes a Stradivarius violin perfect? While most people might have only wondered briefly about the astonishing pristine sounds created by these beautiful musical instruments, for some scientists, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. OK, myself, I'm originally French, so I'm from the French Alps, south of France. And when I was 15, I ...

It might be coincidental, but it is certainly fitting that the sound of a violin played through a bull kelp amplifier has an "underwater" quality to it. It is also a reward for the improvisational ...