This may come as a surprise, but the best violin strings are made not out of plastic, nylon, or metal - it's made out of lamb intestine. It's been that way for centuries. It's a long process that involves several steps before they resemble strings. Some of you may have heard the colloquial term for these strings: catgut (I have no idea why it's cat gut, because it's usually a much larger mammal, from pigs to horses).
It makes me wonder: who thought of doing this in the first place? It's a strange thing to think of doing.
If you want to see the production in action, check out the video below!
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