They aren't guitar strings. They're usually made of metal.

They're guitar wires.

Fine, I'll take the bait. Wiring a guitar instead of stringing it? What is it, a junction box now and we have to connect all the tuning pegs to their respective nuts with a conductive material?

Why not use a single cable? That would be way more efficient and less dangerous.

Why you think it's called an electric guitar?

They are usually made from nylon actually.

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Lower strings are made by a metal wire and another metal wire winding around it. So technically they can be considered cables 😅

If the strings are made of nylon, they are actually pantyhose.

Reminds me of the ElectroBoom Electric Guitar video... https://youtube.com/watch/...

@Taqriaqsuk acoustic guitars that I've played have bronze / phosphor wound wire in the lower registers and steel in the higher ones. I think I've heard of nylon too but never seen it.

@tokumei really? All classical guitars are nylon stringed

@tokumei exactly what @willol said. Classic guitars have nylon strings and I'm fairly sure name comes from them, not from electric guitars.

@willol @Taqriaqsuk classical may imply nylon, but acoustic does not necessarily :)

Cables are not only metal strings, cables are meant to carry information, so the guitar wires are not really wires.

The not wires in a guitar are analog wave generators, each with a min and max frequency.

Those analog wave generators are called strings in this context.

So the guitar not wires analog wave generators are actually called strings, regardless of the material they are made of

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It's wire that's used as strings in a string instrument.

I didn't know that all classical guitars have nylon strings. It was a discovery for me

@FloydDavis do you also know that not all non-electric guitars are classical?