We just had a local house install the string bowling machines and I have to say that this was my first time hearing anything about it but, I'm shocked this house would do this. I have never bowled with these machines and I was wondering what your thoughts were or if any of you had bowled on this before?

I'm not sure how I feel about it but it looks weird.

Definitely with you there.

The thing to watch for is how the various pocket hits react.  High flush should be the same.  Watch the 4 pin trip, the half pocket 10, the snow plow 5, and the shaker. Pretty sure some of those hits will yield odd results . 

Good question.  They could easily make the strings long enough but who knows.  My guess is yea

Nothing more fun than 7-9 on high flush hit with twisters

A question I have...we all currently know what a good/preferred strike looks like when it comes to entry angle, how the pins fall, etc, will there be a different "best way" to strike on strings.  I could see more ball speed having a greater effect with strings flying all over the place, or maybe not.  I would guess what currently carries the best might be a bit different on strings.

It actually wouldn't matter. I mean, if you get in the swish zone, you could have the head pin hit the left side wall, come back off of it, take out the 10 pin, and because of the strings, get yanked back to the left side wall and take out the 7, where otherwise you'd only have a 7 pin to pick up on the second ball.

In short, you'd have a lot of horribly stupid breaks with strings that normally would never physically happen on a lane without them.

BL.