Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:22:56 -0600

From: Thomas Creswell creswell[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CROWN.NET

Subject: Re: G-string



Earliest(1835) OED cite for G string refer to a violin or other stringed

instrument string: eg, the one for which Paganini wrote. Earliest OED

cite (1876)for G string as an item of apparel refer to the string around

the waist of from which a breech clout is aupported as worn by American

Indians