This thread started in reference to the possibility of medieval luthiers
making/using wire strings for _harps_. Since the harp strings are not stopped
(except on rare occasions), would the string need to be perfectly true? Also,
in a case like this, we're not talking about kms of uniform wire, but perhaps a
meter at most.
Of course, Middle Eastern and Indian instruments had wire strings; where
did they come from?
Later on someone had to be making decent bronze (or silver?) wire in Europe
to fit out those citterns, orpharions and bandoras.
Leonard Williams
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