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  2. Strings (tennis) - Wikipedia

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    Some manufacturers, such as Gosen, label nylon strings with words like "sheep", as in sheep intestine, although such strings contain no gut. [9] Synthetic gut, as it is used for mono-filament nylon strings, is now a misnomer, as the creation of multi-filament strings has provided players with a better approximation of natural gut's performance.

  3. Classical guitar strings - Wikipedia

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    Classical guitar strings are strings manufactured for use on classical guitars.While steel-string acoustic guitar strings and electric guitar strings are made of metal, modern classical guitar strings are made of nylon and nylon wound with wire, which produces a different sound to the metal strings.

  4. Classical guitar with additional strings - Wikipedia

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    A classical guitar with additional strings is a nylon-string or gut-string classical guitar with more than six strings, in which the additional strings pass over a fingerboard so that they may be "stopped" or fretted with the fingers.

  5. Classical guitar technique - Wikipedia

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    The advent of nylon strings. Historically, the early guitar (pre-WW II) was strung with catgut rather than the nylon commonly used since then. For reasons of counterpoint: allowing a voice on one string to vibrate for its duration while playing a moving voice on another string.

  6. Lute - Wikipedia

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    Catlines are several gut strings wound together and soaked in heavy metal solutions to increase the string mass. Catlines can be quite large in diameter compared to wound nylon strings of the same pitch. They produce a bass that differs somewhat in timbre from nylon basses. The lute's strings are arranged in courses, of two strings each, though ...

  7. Catgut - Wikipedia

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    A coil of catgut cello string.. Catgut (also known as gut) is a type of cord [1] that is prepared from the natural fiber found in the walls of animal intestines. [2] Catgut makers usually use sheep or goat intestines, but occasionally use the intestines of cattle, [3] hogs, horses, mules, or donkeys. [4]

  8. Classical guitar - Wikipedia

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    Nylon strings also have a much lower tension than steel strings, as do the predecessors to nylon strings, gut strings (made from ox or sheep gut). The lower three strings ('bass strings') are wound with metal, commonly silver-plated copper. Because of the low string tension The neck can be made entirely of wood without a steel truss rod; The ...

  9. Double bass - Wikipedia

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    A less expensive alternative to gut strings is nylon strings; the higher strings are pure nylon, and the lower strings are nylon wrapped in wire, to add more mass to the string, slowing the vibration, and thus facilitating lower pitches. The change from gut to steel has also affected the instrument's playing technique over the last hundred years.

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