String Theory: NYTimes on building guitars and violins
From Australia to Germany to Maui, there is something of an explosion under way in the use of science and new materials to test the limits of instrument making.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/science/28acou.html?ei=5070&en=86e0fe495a3e14d2&ex=1165381200&pagewanted=all