A piece of wood from a tree felled in the early 1700s in the Black Forest of Germany has found new life as a violin and a musical voice for an area soloist and concertmaster. This is the story of two ...

At the 27th "Osnabrücker Baumpflegetagen," a researcher's biotech violin dared to go head to head in a blind test against a stradivarius -- and won! The new violin is made of wood treated with fungus, ...

A Swiss wood researcher successfully modifies the wood for a violin through treatment with special fungi. This treatment alters the acoustic properties of the instrument, making it sound ...

One day they’ll make beautiful music, but for the moment the slabs of mahogany, spruce and maple that Martin Brunkalla will fashion into violins are neatly stacked in his Marengo workshop. The only ...

Earlier this week, we brought you the story of a radiologist and two violin-makers, who used computed tomography (CT) imaging to create a copy of a 1704 Stradivarius violin. The instrument that they ...

A local man has created what he says is the world’s first violin made entirely from sunken cypress wood, and it’s an instrument that musicians say produces a sound unlike any other. Elbert Lawrence, ...

The first domestically produced violin using Taiwania wood was highlighted at a presentation on Friday inviting artisans to use artificially grown Taiwania cryptomerioides for their furniture and ...

The stirring sounds of two legendary types of violin have haunted musicians and baffled craftsmen for centuries.? Now, a researcher claims he is one note closer to recreating the secret recipe that ...

Fungi can be used to treat a violin to make it sound like a rare Stradivarius, a study has found. A wood researcher in Switzerland has succeeded in modifying wood for a violin by treating it with ...

A violin’s soul? Living instruments? Talking wood? There was nothing ordinary about this 60 Minutes trip to the birthplace of the violin A visit to the birthplace of the violin -- a small town in ...