by Elio — Late in Au­gust of 2008 we promised to up­date you on the at­tempts to out-Stradi­var­ius Stradi­var­ius by craft­ing vi­o­lins made from wood treated with fungi. Here is the lat­est news. Sci­en­tists at the Swiss Fed­eral Lab­o­ra­to­ries for Ma­te­ri­als Test­ing and Re­search made vi­o­lins from wood treated with two dif­fer­ent fungi...