Is it a Baroque or a Renaissance string?
  Is it a thumb under or a thumb out string?
Does it warble?
Does it sing?
We need no lute,
It's the whole damn thing!

>The person at the postal window had a difficult time finding the proper
>code, so I sincerely hope it gets there.  I clearly marked on the customs
>note that it is a "musical string".  She looked inside the envelope at it
>in its package, and asked where the string was.  I thought she could not
>see it, so I showed her again, the string.  She then asked, "How does it
>make music?  How do you turn it on?"  It is a hilarious that some are so
>accustomed to electronic gadgetry, that they do not understand what a
>musical string is.
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