String (music)

Flatwound strings on fretless bass guitar

A string in music is a string made of steel, nylon, or gut which vibrates on string instruments, such as the guitar, harp, piano, or violin. They are usually under tension to help them vibrate.

String (music) Media

• Roundwound strings.png

  Diagram of roundwound strings for music instruments

• Flatwound strings.png

  Diagram of flatwound strings for music instruments

• Halfwound strings.png

  Diagram of halfwound (AKA ground wound) strings for music instruments

• Diagram of hexwound strings for music instruments, showing important cross-sections for comparison with other string winding types. Note the hexagonal core, round winding wire and relatively sharp winding profile.

• Phosphorbronzeguitarstring.jpg

  A wound acoustic guitar string (phosphor bronze wound around steel) with a ball end, 0.044" gauge

Other websites

• The vibrations of strings with both ends fixed Archived 2005-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Historical types of string Archived 2008-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• String Tension - technical information on string tension, with tension calculator