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As part of his ongoing teaching work, Ariel Abramovich will teach this summer 2016 the specialty of plucked string and singing, in the framework of the Ancient Music masterclass organized by the “Aula d’Estiu Musical Castelló”. The event is scheduled for July 20 and 21, in Castellón, and the price per student is € […]
Detail of a lute bridge of the Germanische National Museum, Nuremberg (source) After a long period offering Aquila Corde High Twist gut strings in Cuerdas Pulsadas, we want to add new alternatives to our catalog and, in what better way, we want to hear your opinion. Please complete the survey below to help […]
On this occasion, we have the two main protagonists of the project “Waking up sleeping instruments”, the team formed by the violent Carlos Ardura and the musicologist and interpreter Antoni Madueño, with whom we had the pleasure of collaborating from Cuerdas Pulsadas providing strings and frets for the replicas of the sculpted instruments on […]
…cinco años vida en Cuerdas Pulsadas, ¿quieres conocer nuestra historia? …Hasta el 10 diciembre, aprovecha nuestros descuentos! Estos cinco años […]
Two important announcements: Deliveries only on Fridays until September 14 Until September 14, we will modify our usual delivery schedule so that only on Fridays of each week orders placed during the previous days will be shipped. In this way, you can place your order at any time but keep in mind that […]
D e among all the symbols that the lute has meant throughout history: pleasure, joy, eroticism, festive atmosphere, sensuality , concordia , melancholy (semper Dowland, semper dolens) … there is one, not so well known, that was perfectly reflected by the artists of the time. So, although the lute is always associated with the […]
Cover image: Printer press, s. XVI If I had to stay with just one of the most exciting moments from the birth of Cuerdas Pulsadas , it would certainly be the moment when We decided on the final version of the logo. We always had a fairly precise idea of how we wanted […]
Ten long years have passed since the constitution of the Sociedad de la Vihuela : one of the main institutions that structure, enact and promote the plucked string in Spain and, very especially, that part of that heritage that is our own: the vihuela. During this time there have been many people who have […]
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! […]
We thank Joel López for sharing at Cuerdas Pulsadas the transposition to a current language of “Declaración de la cifra que en este libro se usa” which can be found in the essential book by Antonio Cabezón, “Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela”. For those who do not know Joel in his usual […]
