Spiders' silk is being exploited to make a new violin sound.
Spider
The strong elastic properties of a spiders web that warn the creature when it has caught its pray are being utilised to make music.
A prototype violin has been created using golden silk, spun by an Australian Golden Orb Spider.
It's creator Luca Alessandrini said: ''The amazing properties of spider's silk mean that it serves many purposes...spiders' silk has only previously been exploited as string in bows
for instruments, but I've discovered that the amazing resonating property of spiders' silk has massive potential uses in instruments themselves.''
Oxford Universities Zoology department supplied the spiders' silk, as it is known as the strongest silk in the world.
The violin has been shown to a number of Grammy-nominated violinists.