hi there. firstly, i have to say that i love reading all the stuff you write, it gives me something to do when i’m sitting here bored shitless. not that anything here is even remotely boring, but it just, you know, i don’t get around to it that often… anyway…
yeah so, i actually read about the g-string in a trivia book or something, i dunno, and the gist of it was that the g string was named after the thinnest string on a guitar, or violin, i cant remember.
you heard anything like that, i mean, it kinda makes sense.
what ya think? cyaz.
daniel spina.
It’s the thickest string on a violin. (On a modern violin, the others are likely to be bare wire.)
And that’s the most popular guess.
But the evidence indicates that it’s a wrong guess.
If you use the search button on any one of these windows in the message board, and enter “string” and search ‘Comments on Cecil’s Columns’ and hit ‘search any date’ you get the following previous discussions about this. Read them first.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=221930&highlight=string
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=230032&highlight=string
It takes a while to realize that many others have come before you.
The modest, overworked search engine can’t handle “g-string” or “gee-string” as “g/gee” isn’t 4 letters. We have to deal with it.
okies. well thanx to all who answered me. i wonder why the hell they actually printed that in a book then if it was blatantly incorrect… fucking morons.
oh well, thanx a bunch!