Sinfonia ai funghi

Is it possible to build violins that sound as fine as an antique masterpiece? Empa researcher Francis Schwarze has managed to achieve this feat with the help of a Swiss violin maker. By treating the wood with Physisporinus vitreus, a white-rot fungus that attacks and destroys certain structures in spruce, he was able to create a material with resonance properties quite out of the common. These new «fungus violin» could even put its own role model in the shade. Acoustics experts at Empa are currently studying the body and soul of instruments made of «mycowood».

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