Mimi Ezust writes:
>Todd Michel McComb wrote:
>
>>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.
It would be foolhardy, in a country of nearly a billion people, to claim
that no one is playing a violin with gut strings. However, I don't know
any leading Carnatic violinists using anything but steel. That's the
standard. Where have you seen gut?
Todd McComb
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