What are guitar strings made of?

Answer 1

They can be made of different materials such as nylon or even steel. It depends on what kind of sound you want, what kind of guitar you have, etc.

steel with nickel windings around them , other kinds are steel with bronze windings or just steel with steel windings.

acoustic strings are the bronze ones

steel and nickel plated ones are for electric Guitars

classical guitar strings are made of Nylon after the 1930s or 1940s, before that it was animal guts called catgut.

steel for the wire inside and either bronze (acoustic) steel or nickel windings.

Nylon is classical guitars and everything after 1942

Animal guts and hair made strings before 1942

Answer 2

They can be made out of several

materials / metals. There is a "Core" which is a thin solid piece of metal, and the winding around the core. Acoustics commonly use bronze, classical guitars use a nylon or a nickel wound outer shell with silk inside. These are called "Silk & Steel" sometimes. Electrics will also commonly use nickel, nickel plated steel, or stainless steel.

Answer 3

Acoustic guitars are classified into two main groups. Nylon string or Classical guitar, and steel string guitars.

The Classical guitar has the three thinner strings made from Nylon and the three heavier made from brass or silver wound around a steel (or sometimes nylon) core.

Steel string guitars have their top two strings made from steel wire and lower four from brass/steel core, but the number of wirewound strings can vary by guitar design or player preference. Wound strings either have a round core or hex core. The combination of metals in wound strings is prone to corrosion so may be nickel plated or polymer coated to protect the string

Answer 4

acoustic strings , there's two kinds bronze like Dean Markley Phosbronze , they're a dark brown color, than there's steel strings which look like electric strings.

now if we're talking classical they're made out of nylon which you'll know right away that they're classical by the plastic non-metal look and mellow sound of the strings and the fact they're tied at the bridge of the guitar which is where they start on the guitar.

Answer 5

Folk singers use nylon strings for a mellow sound while country and western singers use metal strings for a louder, sharper sound.

Answer 6

Sometimes steel, sometimes bronze..depends on the manufacturer!

Answer 7

Acoustic guitar have steel strings.........

from:::Cem

Answer 8

Some are plain nylon while others, like the lower strings, are wrapped in some type of metal.

Answer 9

Animal gut, nylon, or metal.