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Why do modern stringmakers use guts cut into strands instead of whole guts?

April 26, 2017cut guts Modern strands

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Why do modern stringmakers use guts cut into strands instead of whole guts?

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First of all, the cleaving of gut into strands to be twisted into musical strings is a technique that was already in use in the second half the 16th century (see the roman and neapolitan stringmakers statutes from 1589 and 1653) and was certainly common in the second half of the 18th century.