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We start a new year in the best possible way, with several announcements and a great promotion in the catalog of Cuerdas Pulsadas. Announcements 1) The new synthetic Aquila (CD) basses are now available in our catalog 2) Küerschner’s gut strings and gut frets are now available in our catalog 3) Savárez KF […]
We have on this occasion the pleasure of interviewing Miguel Angel Bautista, architect, who has achieved the application of current techniques to the development of parchment rosettes, both in its design and in its manufacture: Some facts about roses on plucked string instruments We have various historical sources that include explicit references […]
El libro “La abuela vihuela” esta confeccionado como un cuento con arreglos musicales, narrado de manera sencilla, mezclando realidad y ficción, a través del cual ir descubriendo este cautivador instrumento llamado vihuela de mano. A lo largo de nueve capítulos se presentarán: la historia del instrumento, el tipo de construcción, la notación […]
We are proud to announce the immediate availability of a new type of bass strings developed by Aquila Corde, and we have the best person to talk about it, Mimmo Peruffo. Aquila Corde: research an innovation Aquila Corde was born in the 1990s out of the researches of the string manufacturer (and amateur […]
We have again the opportunity to count in Cuerdas Pulsadas with Fernando Pérez , who has recently released his second studio album dedicated to Matteo Carcassi and performed with a romantic guitar built by Lourdes Uncilla. Three years ago since the launch of Feel Past Fret , Fernando’s first adventure in which he invited […]
Born as a student project while Carlos Naranjo (lute / theorb) and Alberto Campanero (Viola da gamba / baroque cello) were pursuing their higher studies in The ‘Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid’ (RCSMM), The Antycke is consolidated as a professional group a Once these studies are completed, and closing his final training […]
Taught by: Jacob Heringman & Ariel Abramovich, two of the leading Renaissance music specialists for lute and vihuelas. Classes will take place on November 26 and 27, 2016, in Madrid (site to be confirmed) The price for active students for two classes (one with each interpreter): 110 euros. Price for hearing students: […]
Surely I do not discover anything new to anyone if I declare that the Renaissance guitar is one of the least known instruments of the plucked string, no longer by the dilettante or casual public, but also by the musicians themselves. My opinion is that, despite its interesting repertoire and varied possibilities, this instrument […]
After more than five years since Cuerdas Pulsadas was opened to the general public , we consider that already a revision of the web was necessary to improve some aspects and also update all the technology behind the web. We detail the main improvements applied: DESIGN Regarding the design, there are some […]
We are pleased to share the last great project of WorkinGOpera , to those who already we presented a long time ago in this blog on the occasion of its appearance in 2012. WorkinGOpera is an opera company specialized in recovering baroque operas, adapting them and creating a new, innovative and current product. The aim […]
