At 03:38 PM 2/26/2005, Michael Thames wrote: >...1765, the same time when first classical guitar, with single strings >(Wound metal on silk) started to appear.
Actually, such guitars didn't come until a couple decades later...but the first Neapolitan mandolins did appear around this time and did use a g of silver-wound silk as stated in the early methods published in 1760s Paris. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
