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Sunday, September 9, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Treatment with fungi makes a modern violin sound like a Stradivarius

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:16 AM PDT

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 and Technology has succeeded in modifying the wood for a violin through treatment with special fungi, making it sound indistinguishably similar to a Stradivarius.

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