4 years old. Congratulations Cuerdas Pulsadas¡

  Today Santa Cecilia , patron saint of music and poetry ( perhaps due to a translation error ), who was usually represented with three icons: the rose, the organ and the lute. Precisely like this it was represented by the French painter Jacques Blanchard (1600 –1638):     So, congratulations to all the musicians! But, also on this day we celebrate another anniversary: Cuerdas Pulsadas is now 4 years old. We want to make a brief tour of the most relevant of the year in which, precisely, we launched this blog, where we have published some articles and news of great interest, such as:

• Comparative Chemical Analysis of Gut Strings
• Rediscovering Valderrábano with Gracia María Gil
• Translation of “Declaration of the figure used in this book” , by Joel López
• A revealing interview with Alfred Fernández
• 60 years tuning the lute
• A review of the festival “Pórtico de Zamora”

  With a special mention to one of the most exciting projects in which we have been involved, ” The vihuelas of Trujillo “. There we learned that vihuelas can also sound for months in high school, and we brought a good handful of great friends with us.     In addition to the Trujillo adventure, this year we launched “Declaration of Instruments” . An initiative to promote a better programming of the plucked string in the professional circuit and also a flexible platform where Cuerdas Pulsadas acts as an umbrella brand.     Also during this year there have been some novelties, of course, in the Cuerdas Pulsadas catalog:

• We incorporated the fantastic Gamut’s half-torched gut
• We solved one of the main demands, strings of nylgut for harps by Aquila Corde
• Gut and silk strings for guitar , by Aquila Corde
• A complete set of gut for classical guitar, by Pyramid

  We are kicking off another new year in the life of Cuerdas Pulsadas and we thank you all for your trust and support year after year.