Most commonly heard only on Vollista (or in performances given by musicians from that planet), the style of Vollistan music tends to fall somewhere between Old Earth classical and Old Earth jazz, as far as it can be compared to Terran styles. The scoring for this style tends to be biased towards high strings (like harps), woodwinds, percussion, and vocals. The method for creating the strings for their instruments is a closely-kept secret; it is rumoured that Vollistan hair may be used, and treated to improve the tensile strength - but most Vollistans deny this. What is known is that most of the strings look similar to horse-hair string, asides from a metallic bronze sheen. It is possible, however, that they use specially treated gut-string. Vollistan stringed instruments are usually rest