I know a lot of people were and still are freaking out about Black Hat using cat guts as Violin strings but, here’s the thing. There’s 3 different types of stings fr a violin : Metal Strings, Gut Strings, & Synthetic Strings. Older violins tend to use gut strings, these are strings made of sheep's intestines that have been stretched, dried and twisted. These strings are commonly called catgut and contrary to popular belief, catgut violin strings aren’t made of an actual cat's guts. I mean you could do theoretically put them though the same process as you would with sheep intestines but, there’s a strong chance that it wouldn’t work. On top of that if it did, it wouldn’t sound right or last as nearly as long.
I’m pretty sure Alan just used very clever word-play to fuck with us, if so, damn did he do a fucking good job.
