> From an encyclopedia:
> "History of wire production
> Wire was originally made by beating the metal out into plates, which were
> then cut into continuous strips, and afterwards rounded by beating.
To add:
Drawing is essential to produce a wire that would be sufficiently uniform to
be acoustically true. Chain-mail technology has little value for music.
RT
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