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Seven-string: Gut, not nylon, for Sychra's guitar strings. Sychra had been dead for more than 80 years when nylon was made for the first time.
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There is no question, however, that Sychra was a great proponent of the seven-string instrument, having written a method, and more than one thousand compositions for the instrument. Seventy-five of these pieces were republished in the 1840s by [[Stellovsky]], then again in the 1880s by [[Gutheil]]. Some of these were published again in the [[Soviet Union]] in 1926.
 
Sychra's guitar was a nylongut-string "classical" variation of the traditional [[Russian guitar|Russian Gypsy Guitar]] (now usually steel-strung), and tuned in a similar manner, to an open 'G' chord:
 
*D2 - G2 - B2 - D3 - G3 - B3 - D4