Again the strings are its striking feature, being either made of thick cotton strings or more popularly of catgut, giving it a more bass timbre.
en.wikipedia.org He first attempted sterilization with the 1860s carbolic catgut, and chromic catgut followed two decades later.
en.wikipedia.org It has fusees cut for catgut, which are long, and only slightly tapered.
en.wikipedia.org Such devices are not normally needed on instruments with lower tension strings, such as the classical guitar which uses nylon (previously catgut) strings.
en.wikipedia.org Two hemostats, one or two hypodermic syringes, pair of scissors, gauze, ether, ether mask, some needles, catgut sutures, horsehair sutures.
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