steel strings
Metal guitar filaments
Steel strings are metal strings used on guitars and other stringed instruments, as opposed to nylon or gut strings.
They produce a brighter, louder sound and are standard on acoustic folk guitars, electric guitars, banjos, and mandolins.
Classical guitars use nylon strings, so steel-string guitar distinguishes the folk or country style of instrument.
- guitarFretted stringed instrument
- acoustic guitarUnplugged stringed instrument
- acousticRelating to sound
- nylonSynthetic textile polymer
- folk musicCommunity-born acoustic songs
frets · plucking · twang · vibration · resonance · bright tone · tension · tuning · fingerpicking · capo · bridge · saddle · open tuning · wound · gauge · bronze · phosphor · strumming
- violin stringsLarsen
- violinviolin, bowing, violin bow, fingerboard, chin rest
- string instrumentsukulele, mandolin, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar
- acoustic guitarsclassical guitar, folk guitar, flamenco guitar, dreadnought, Spanish guitar
- instrument strings
- stringing thingspearl necklace, threading, catgut