was violin and guitar strings ever really made of cat guts?
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Violin strings were really made of gut, I believe it was really from sheep.The draw back of that type is they were greatly effected by weather and they broke easier.\n       The bow hair was made from horse tail- a lot better than synthetic bow hair.\n   Mike R tells just how it was made.
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The wind instrument has always been with us, ask anyone who has eaten beans, broccoli, cabbage or the like. I don't think there's any record of the start of the string thing.
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Can't remember the notes ,but when you play one string at a time it should sound like ::MY DOG HAS FLEAS.(not a song) but the sound.
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I don't know what you're talking about. Was the instrument high pitched? If so, maybe it was a viola or violin. If it was low pitched, then maybe a cello. If the pitch was REALLY low, it's the bass.
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I think the violin because it comes from wood, from trees. Now that it is a violin the tree is dead, but it sings from the instrument it is made into.\n\nDid u understand any of that?? Sorry, feels weird writing it out.
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What an insane, ridiculous, X-files question!  Everyone knows that cats are the transformed and eternal vessels for souls that escaped fiery destruction and watery death in atlantis.  Fnord.
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These are very thorough answers.  But you asked for "simple," so here goes...\n\nAccording to string theory, "strings" are the fundamental building block of all matter...the old fashioned ones (atoms and/or their consituent parts) are in fact nothing more than strings vibrating a certain way.  If they vibrate one way, they're electrons.  If they vibrate another way, they're protons.  And so on.
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Some hopes !\nLet us see what will happen if you used a -\n[a] Cotton string :\nIf you swallowed it, it will most possibly be churned within your stomach, and turned into a tangled mass and soon block and choke your small intestines - plus remain there !\nBut if you 'ate' [masticated and pulverised] it, since cotton is basically an agricultural product, it would be acted upon by the digestive enzymes - and turned into unidentifiable excreta.\n[b] Nylon string :\nWhether you swallowed or 'ate' it [impossible, since it is synthetic], it will not be digested within your stomach, and get knotted into a tangled mass and immediately block and choke your entire alimentary canal !
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elephant like chaplinesque on long string elements.
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Yes! What's the deal? You would think that for the thousands of years they've been making the doggone things they would have mastered the art of keeping-the-string-in-the-pants-past-one-wearing. Ever had it come out (or at least mostly out) in the dryer and strangle some drawers and socks? Then you have one sock that is still half wet that you have to let air dry before you can roll it up and put it away. I think that's why we lose so many socks in the dryer....Serial sweatpants string murders!
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I saw a show on the Discovery Channel showing how a guitar is made. Sorry I don't remember how they painted it. But you could go search the website to see when that show is on.
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Oh! my dad used to tell me that squirrels were cats, radishes were apples, and that peanut butter was made by monkeys and elephants. I believed that until I saw a Mr.rogers episode when they visited the peanut butter factory.
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You can use different string instruments or you an even use different types of strings. Rope, nylon, thread and use different tensions with them.
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Yeah, i know some hard rock that uses pianos and violins... not like some gay emo crap but some good stuff, My Dying Bride is a good example of the violin, check out their 'The Angel and the Dark River' album. very very good album!
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In a nutshell?\n\nOh, that's kind of the idea. \n\nStrings are a mathematical construction that hold the promise of putting all the properties of subatomic particles into a nutshell - or actually a string. If it can be made to work it will be really "niffty" - just how valuable has yet to be determined.\n\ngiving much of the basics without knowing the level of math to provide is really tough.\n\nAn intuitive description suggests that a string will provide information by virtue of its vibrations. Different harmonics representing different particles.  All particles are strings, just vibrating in different ways.
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String savers are used for Gut strings and also what is known as multifilament strings that will fray over time.  The string savers reduce the "notching" commonly found in tennis from the saw like action the strings perform during the stiking of a tennis ball.  Therefore by reducing this friction you can maintain longer string life of the more expensive strings that have greater feel due to their increased elasticity.  This means the tennis player has better feedback on his ball strikes and thus can control his shots a little better based on "feel" of the shot.
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There are two main kinds of strings: cosmic strings, and then strings that are postulated to be building blocks of matter.\n\nCosmic strings are attempts to explain the irregularity of matter in the cosmos.\n\nThe other string theory postulates that matter is not built out of zero dimensional objects (particles) but out of one dimensional objects (strings). These are very small and they vibrate to produce various effects. There are different varieties of these building block type string theories, which you can read about below.