What materials are used in the making of stringed instruments?

Answer 1

Strings are made from various materials including nylon, steel, bronze, and even sheep intestine (catgut). The bodies of the instruments are often made from wood in the form of a sound box. Plastics can also be used.

Pianos are string instruments--they use ivory or plastic on the wooden keys that move wooden pushrods that actuate felt-covered wooden hammers that strike bronze-wrapped steel strings that are stretched on a cast iron or brass bed and it is all contained within a wooden cabinet, usually with steel hinges.

Answer 2

In a stringed instrument the sound is generated by the vibration of one or more strings or wires, stretched tight between two posts. To make the sound louder there is usually a hollow space next to the string(s). The body of the instrument is usually made out of wood.

Examples of a stringed instrument are:-

Guitar

Violin

Harp

Piano

Answer 3

Strings were made of animal gut or natural fibers. Bows for violins and similar instruments were made for horse tail hair and often still are.

Answer 4

Wood. The strings can be made out of metal or gut.

Answer 5

Spruce, maple, ebony for violin family instruments.

Answer 6

Steel or nylon.