Talk:Strings (music)
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[edit] Details vary
This is a good start to the article. Please remember that the subject applies to strings for a wide variety of instruments. What I'm reading looks like it applies to my fiddle a lot more than to my classical guitar. Kbh3rd 23:39, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
- Yep, I noticed that too. Made it a little less violin-centric by pointing out different materials used for string winding depending on the instrument. --ILike2BeAnonymous 06:05, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Material in violin article
I added a note the the violin talk page noting that the discussion on strings there seems a lot richer in some details than here, and that seems backwards. Who can merge that information into this article? -- Kbh3rd 20:14, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Merge "Guitar strings" into this article
I propose this be done. The guitar strings article is redundant (and badly written to boot). Put a redirect from "guitar strings" to here. --ILike2BeAnonymous 19:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Totally agree. It should be just scraped and replaced with a redirect. --GreyCat 19:28, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
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- How do you do that? I'll do it right away, absent any strong protest. --ILike2BeAnonymous 19:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
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- What do you mean badly written? I was just respnding to a request plus it was the first article I've written. it wasn't that bad apart from the start. St jimmy 11:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Hey, nothing personal: you know what they say here about having a thick skin, seeing your work get "mercilessly edited" and all. Yes, it is badly written, but your creating it in response to a request is still appreciated. But you didn't respond to the merge question: is it OK with you to merge it into this article? --ILike2BeAnonymous 19:15, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Yeah it's ok to merge. What could I do to improve the article or do different next time? St jimmy 10:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
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- There seems to be consensus that the articles should be merged. (See Guitar Strings "talk" page.) So how do we get this done? How does one "just scrape" an article? Can someone do this? --ILike2BeAnonymous 18:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Whoops. I just cut-and-pasted the article without seeing this discussion. I don't think the Guitar strings article was not of bad quality, just the information is more useful in the context of this article. So therefor, I put the information in this article. Anyone disagree, take it out. --Banana04131 20:08, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
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- I did just that. Looks like you didn't really even read this article before pasting the "Guitar strings" stuff into it. That material was 98% redundant with what was already here. So the articles are now merged. I'll go ahead and remove the suggested merge tag. That is all. --ILike2BeAnonymous 20:35, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History section requested
Someone could include a History section in which they could write about the history of the musical strings, when where the first strings made? for what instruments? What materials were used? etc... --Francisco Valverde 09:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Title
Why is this page title at the plural "Strings"? See Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Prefer_singular_nouns. Hyacinth 18:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, but contra that, see this. Me, I'm not sure: seems to me that since almost all stringed musical instruments have more than one string, it would make more sense to refer to them in the plural. When talking about a piano, for instance, it seems more natural to refer to "piano strings" rather than "the/a piano string", unless one particular string is under discussion. ==ILike2BeAnonymous 20:10, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Silk and Steel
I edited the article to remove the suggestion that silk and steel strings were only for 12-string guitars. I've bought and used 6-string sets for years. In fact, I've only just recently found silk and steel strings for my 12-string. Having said that, I love them on the 12-string!!
Also, I've never seen the wound with unplated bronze -- the ones I've used were usually silver-plated. andersonpd 23:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
