early strings
Hello I know that a long time ago the strings on stringed instruments were made from animal gut. However, I am wondering if anyone knows how else strings could have been made? Maybe 4 thousand years...
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The Chinese used and continue to use silk. Sheep and Cow gut was used as you noted. Any cordage could be used for a percussive stringed instrument. A length of cordage and a hollow gourd/drum/etc will...
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I think the farther back you go in time, the higher the probability they used gut. Animal "parts" precede any other manufactured material.
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Salvador 06 wrote: I think the farther back you go in time, the higher the probability they used gut. Animal "parts" precede any other manufactured material. That's great idea for discussion! I would...
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The Norwegian jouhikko (a type of bowed lyre) used horse hair for the strings and on the bow. This instrument was used in the soundtrack of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Morin Khuur (two string...
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The jouhikko is a really cool sounding instrument. i would like to try and put something together with horse hair. And silk as well. I bet silk is very ancient.
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Early strings...I love this topic! I think the Raft Zither may be a very old way of making a 'string' instrument...the strings are slivers of bamboo or cane culm, which are left attached on the ends...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3q79HFjhBg This is a youtube link that has Pete Seeger playing/singing with Buffy St. Marie on a mouth bow. It's a really wonderful view. Gary
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http://shop.nadishana.com..._virtuemart&Itemid=1 This link was followed specifically for a new/improved mouth bow that one site said may be man's earliest instrument. (I believe that it was the...
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Orien Now that you mention Bamboo, there's an instrument that uses a piece of bamboo fiber and the bamboo itself as a percussion stringed instrument. loosen a piece of fiber in between two nodes,...
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I think the oldest surviving bow artifacts didn't have a string for us to analyze, but if we consider the bow as the "father" of all string instruments, then we can look at the bows of modern...
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and production By John Shepherd http://books.google.com/b...p;ct=result&resnum=2 This google book, page 276, references a cave...
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Here's the image they are talking about: Interestingly, one of our members (Sam Rooney - aka Tewaoko), originally a New Zealander, now lives in the south of France and works as a guide of sorts in...
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The mouth bow, in the pic posted by Orien M looks as though the string may be a plant material. It is hard to tell though and may be something comepletely different.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin_strings A 3000 year old Chinese instrument called the Guqin. The link tells of the use of silk as the original strings and gives a description as to the manufacture...
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http://www.daniellarson.com/article.htm An article on the making of gut strings. There is a statement that instruments discovered in the tombs at Thebes in 1823 had gut strings. Gary
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