For whatever reason, violins are often at the forefront of futuristic design. But no matter how crazy a violin looks, the only thing that really matters is how it sounds. So while the 3Dvarius, the ...

We’ve seen 3D-printed violins before, but they used an electric pickup to amplify the sound of the resonating strings. Using a newly formulated white resin, Formlabs instead 3D-printed an acoustic ...

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 ...

Using the same "stick-and-slip" technique as a violinist drawing a bow across the strings, the spiny lobster strives for a strikingly different result -- to make a cacophony alarming enough to scare ...

It's not every day you come across a musical instrument that could comfortably double as a lethal weapon, but here's one such creation. The 'Piezoelectric Violin' sports a rather remarkable design ...

Spiders might soon give you goosebumps in a good way. Strands of spider silk have been used to make violin strings that have a unique and thrilling sound, thanks perhaps to the way the strands deform ...