An instrument with new strings, according to experts, demonstrated a “soft and deep timbre” of sound. Some violinists even started talking about “new music.” Spider Inventor Strings – Shigeyoshi Osaki from Medical Nara University (Nara Medical University). According to information PhysOrg.com, this scientist, a specialist in polymer chemistry, for 35 years working on the study of spider silk and large-scale technology getting strong threads from it. Similar natural fibers could potentially be interesting material for body armor or surgical sutures. However, no one else seems to have thought of make strings for musical instrument from cobwebs. Osaka, and playing the violin himself, he decided to fill this gap. 
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Japanese used the help of 300 spider Nephila maculata, grown in captivity. Dr. Osaki weaved threads from them in bunches of 3000 and 5000 pieces. Of the three such beams twisted already in in the opposite direction, the strings themselves were created for violins. Tensile strength tests showed that “spider” strings withstand slightly less stress than rare strings from the guts, but much more than the common strings from nylon coated aluminum. Studying string cuts under electron microscope showed that they have an important difference from analogues. While in ordinary strings weaved fibers keep a round shape, leaving a lot of empty space between by themselves, spider threads have taken the form of polygons, tightly getting together. According to Shigeyoshi, this is one of the important factors giving new strings not only strength and elasticity, but also specific sound (specific overtones) that musicians can easily distinguish by ear.
Osaka described his achievement in Physical Review Letters, noting that experience with strings will help advance experiments in areas of unusual materials in general.
