Yes- I got the news from one of my lute students yesterday. I heard a sample sound bite on the radio on the way home from work today, somewhat strange sounding- reedy, "webby", a touch ethereal & otherworldly in a nice way. How the hell did they harvest and process it? About 12 years ago some archery folks tried to gather spider silk for bow strings (apparently the strength to mass/weight ratio is unbelievable) but they got tangled up in a sticky, nasty web mess and abandoned the project.
Dan > On Mar 6, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Anthony Hind wrote: > Violin strings out of spider's thread: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17232058 > Anthony > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
