txtCommentary={\f1 Strings.} In Mozart\'92s time, {\uldb strings}{\v 97871} were made entirely of sheep gut, contributing to the {\uldb instruments}{\v 84565}\'92 light, transparent sound. To compete with the bigger sounds that had evolved in {\uldb woodwind}{\v 148196} and {\uldb brass}{\v 147517} instruments, string players around the middle of the nineteenth century began to use steel or silver-wound strings. The wound strings, and other slight modifications in the neck
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txtCommentary1=\par \par \par and bridge, gave an older instrument the {\uldb tonal}{\v 100650} punch now desired. {\fs24\uldb\'80}{\v next}
