Oh Say Can You See?

This is the world's smallest guitar.
Made out of crystalline silicon, it's about the length of a single human blood cell. And the strings? We're talking maybe 100 atoms wide.

Sure, but how does the sound hold up next to a Martin D-50 K-2 Deluxe?

Cornell University Nanofabrication Facility, 1997
(via weburbanist)