There are many, many different brands and types of cello strings
for the beginner, intermediate and professional player. Some of these
strings are very affordable, some less so depending on their core
material as well as the material they are wound with. Cello, viola and
violin strings look deceptively simple, but modern strings are actually
quite complex in their technology. The story of the evolution of the
cello string is an interesting one.
Cello string cores have been
typically made of gut or metal. Gut - from goat and sheep - was the sole
material used from the earliest periods of bowed stringed instruments
up to