[LUTE] Re: Violin strings out of spider's thread

2012-03-06 Thread Leonard Williams
Arto-- Looks like you may need to add a new material to your string calculator! Leonard On 3/6/12 3:41 PM, Anthony Hind agno3ph...@yahoo.com wrote: Violin strings out of spider's thread: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17232058 Anthony -- To get on or off

[LUTE] Re: Violin strings out of spider's thread

2012-03-06 Thread Arto Wikla
Well, what is the density, Kg/m3... ;) And btw I have the feel that my tarantulas are not willing to co-operate in producing enough material... Arto On 06/03/12 23:40, Leonard Williams wrote: Arto-- Looks like you may need to add a new material to your string calculator! Leonard

[LUTE] Re: Violin strings out of spider's thread

2012-03-06 Thread cyndiric
I didn't know tarantulas made webs! Now those little guys in the corner of the room and imagine the prey they could capture with this stuff! No more need for traps or poison to eliminate indoor mice, rats, bats. -Original Message- From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: Arto

[LUTE] Re: Violin strings out of spider's thread

2012-03-06 Thread Adam Olsen
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:00 PM, cyndi...@netscape.net wrote: I didn't know tarantulas made webs! Now those little guys in the corner of the room and imagine the prey they could capture with this stuff! No more need for traps or poison to eliminate indoor mice, rats, bats. They can all

[LUTE] Re: Violin strings out of spider's thread

2012-03-06 Thread Daniel Winheld
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

[LUTE] Re: Physiology of playing fast.

2012-03-06 Thread tom
The older I go, the slower I gets ... A description of how muscles contract is here http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/musc le3.htm The complexity of the process makes me wonder whether differences in physiology (say, heavily gated sarcoplasmic reticuli)

[LUTE] Re: Violin strings out of spider's thread

2012-03-06 Thread tom
I saw this two days ago on BBC, and after listening to the sound bite I thought, There's no way to compare. Give me a sample sound bite of a good violin with Thomastik strings, and the SAME violin with spider silk strings. Then I will have a basis for comparison. With their current sound