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 ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH — Tom Pierce, the owner of Tom's Fiddle and Bow in Arnaudville Louisiana, runs a business rooted in a deep love for fiddles and the music. "At the basis of it, I have a shop where I ...

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 ...

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, ...

Steven Reineke will lead the strings-only concert with Houston Symphony. Credit: Photo by Bertuzzi Photography It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got those strings. Houston Symphony will present ...

It's a variation on the Pied Piper story, only these musicians are playing the violin and leading their followers to an imaginary meeting ground inhabited by Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Luc Ponty and Vassar ...