Strings

The simple string. It can be soooooo much more than just a bit of string.
A bit of string can be a cat toy. It can hold together a present for a loved one. It can bring in a fish for dinner.
Take several strings and weave them together. Now you can hold a sail up a mast, hold the sail together, hold the mast up. Tie a stick to one end and throw it overboard from a moving boat and you can tell how fast the boat travels.
Pull a string tight and blow across it, or pluck it to make sound, or music. Put a few on a wooden box and you have a guitar of sorts.
Guitar strings have been made out of several things over the years. And have been available in this part of the world for many years. In the late sixteenth century, guitar strings were available for purchase on the road [Camino Real] from Mexico City to Santa Fe.
Guitar strings made today are very well made indeed, are cheap, and can be had from many many sources. It's a wonder then why so many guitars have old dead strings. New strings give new life to any stringed instrument, and thus, perhaps, new inspiration.