Do you want to know what guitar strings are? People are often asking about guitar strings this and what they are, it's can be rather confusing.........

The first Guitar Strings were made of gut and used on a guitar style instruments around for thousands of years. The first guitars were defined as being an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides.

 Two medieval instruments that were called "guitars" were in use by 1200: the guitarra moresca (Moorish guitar) and the guitarra latina (Latin guitar).

The early guitarists used gut as their guitar string material until the mid 20th century when nylon guitar strings were introduced.

Rock was born with the introduction of steel guitar strings and the Fender and Gibson electric guitar. Guitar tablatures were written and guitarists were learning chords to their favorite songs by their favorite bands.

"What are Guitar Strings?".....

A guitar string is a string made of a particular material, typically, gut, nylon or steel, which is spanned over a wooden instrument or an instrument which has magnetic or piezoelectric pickups. The purpose of the string is to vibrate and produce a particular musical note. A standard guitar has 6 strings and is tuned in the following configuration, E-A-D-G-B-E.

For the wooden or acoustic guitars, the sound is produced by the vibration of the strings which is amplified by the wooden body of the guitar. For the electric guitars, the sound is produced by the vibration of the strings which is transferred into an electric signal using piezo-electric pickups or magnetic pickups and is then amplified using basic signal amplification techniques.

Wound strings have an inner core (often steel) with another material wound around the core such as bronze, nickel or Phosphor bronze. On Classical Guitars the wound strings are often silver over a nylon core. Classical guitars do not have a truss rod which is required to hold the much higher tension of metal strings.