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		<title>Mold Takes on Famous Violin Maker</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is way cool. A recent comparison of the sound of a Stradivarius violin, and a violin made with &#8220;fungus treated&#8221; wood, resulted in a clear victory for the fungus! According to Mold-treated violin beats Strad in blind test: Sci­ent­ist Fran­cis Schwar­ze of EMPA, the Swiss Fed­er­al Lab­o­r­a­to­ries for Ma­te­ri­als Test­ing and Re­search, de­vel­oped [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now this is way cool. A recent comparison of the sound of a Stradivarius violin, and a violin made with &#8220;fungus treated&#8221; wood, resulted in a clear victory for the fungus!</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090915_violin.htm" target="_blank">Mold-treated violin beats Strad in blind test</a>:</p>
<p>Sci­ent­ist Fran­cis Schwar­ze of EMPA, the Swiss Fed­er­al Lab­o­r­a­to­ries for Ma­te­ri­als Test­ing and Re­search, de­vel­oped the new vi­o­lin by treat­ing it with spe­cially se­lected fun­gus, which he says im­proves the sound qual­ity by mak­ing the wood light­er and more un­iform. For the new vi­o­lins, Schwar­ze uses Nor­we­gian spruce wood treated with the fun­gus<em> Physi­por­i­nus vit­rius</em> and syc­a­more treated with <em> Xy­laria lon­gipes</em>. The re­sult means that “in the fu­ture even tal­ent­ed young mu­si­cians will be able to af­ford a vi­o­lin with the same ton­al qual­ity as an im­pos­sibly ex­pen­sive Strad­i­var­i­us,” said Horst Heger of the Os­na­brück City Con­serv­a­tory. Schwarze said the new in­stru­ments would probably run about $25,000.</p>
<p>More:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/*/52809/---/l=2" target="_blank">Seeking the secrets of the Stradivarius</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.wksu.org/classical/tag/xylaria-longipes/" target="_blank">A Modern Strad?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mushroomexpert.com/xylaria_longipes.html" target="_blank"><em>Xylaria longipes</em> at Mushroom Expert</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.picsearch.com/pictures/food%20!!%20drink/mushrooms/tr-y/xylaria%20longipes.html" target="_blank"><em>Xylaria longipes</em> at Picsearch</a><a href="http://www.mushroomexpert.com/xylaria_longipes.html" target="_blank"></a></p>
<p>I can&#8217;t find anything on <em>Physiporinus</em> <em>vitrius.</em></p>
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