Todd Michel McComb wrote:

>Santu De Silva writes:
>
>>Was the neck angled like that of a modern western violin?  Was it
>>steel-strung?
>
>Carnatic violinists use violins identical to those used by modern Western
>musicians.  They are strung with steel.

And some are strung with gut strings.
And some just use gut A AND E strings.

Mimi Ezust <[log in to unmask]>