String Facts | Facts about Strings

The dollar gets around!

45% of every dollar bill you have ever owned has been in a stripper's G-string

In India, strings of mango leaves are hung over doors during festivals.

The rosary is a string of prayer beads Catholics use to pray a series of prayers, many of them devoted to Mary.

A hurdy-gurdy makes sound when the player turns a crank that spins a rosined wheel against the strings, working like a violin bow.

A hurdy-gurdy player changes notes by pressing keys that touch the strings.

A hurdy-gurdy has drone strings that play a constant note.

A hurdy-gurdy has a buzzing bridge called the "dog."

A musical saw is a handsaw bent into an S-curve and played with a bow.

A modern nyckelharpa has 16 strings.

A nyckelharpa has sympathetic strings that vibrate on their own when other strings are played.

The Inca kept records using quipu, knotted strings.