Re: technical string question

J. Teske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is reported to have said:
> It is usually chrome steel and some brands even plug that into their
> trade name e.g. "chromecore". Some will be coated with other metals
> notably gold...extremely thin gold...since the cost differential
> between coated and non coated is rather small.  I don't know if chrome
> steel is considered to be part of the stainless family. I do know that
> never in my violinistic career have I ever had a steel string rust. (I
> only use steel strings for my E string.)  All the others are synthetic
> core.
> 
> In very general terms, Violin E strings are usually just drawn metal.
> In the other three strings any variety of materials can be used as a
> core over which aluminum or silver covers are wound.  This core can be
> gut, steel, or increasingly a synthetic core (Perlon is one
> tradename). Pure gut strings are fairly rare except for the early
> music crowd although players of a certain age (myself included as a
> kid 50 years ago) can remember when the A string was usually unwound
> gut.  Steel strings have been the norm for the E string since early in
> the 20th century.
> 
> I might add that until you asked that question, I never even gave it
> the slightest thought.
> 
> Jon Teske, violinist
THanks muchly for your help, Jon.  I wouldn't have known where to look
for that info.

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