Before the invention of nylon, from what material were strings made for use by flamenco players? I have tried different search engines and forae but found no answer or similar question.
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In Europe, stringed instruments (harps, guitars, violins) have used strings made from animal gut for millenia.
The lower strings of a guitar were sometimes made with gut wrapped around a silk core.
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answered Aug 18, 2019 at 20:01
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Fascinating. Wonder if someone found out how to make them by accident. Some accident! Seriously, why would anybody do all that?– TimCommented Aug 19, 2019 at 16:07
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Whoever it was, we can't know their name, because by the time we'd thought of naming people, we'd already been eating snails for 27,000 years. Commented Aug 26, 2019 at 16:37