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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 […]
Now available at Cuerdas Pulsadas gut sets and gutting on silk Silk by Aquila Corde. Until the middle of the 20th century, guitar strings were manufactured exclusively with gut for the highs and wound on silk for the basses, where the acoustic result of this arrangement was very different from that obtained with the synthetic […]
We are pleased to present, for the first time, one of the latest works by Kacper Wierzchoś: a qualitative and semi-quantitative chemical analysis of gut strings for guitar and bow, where a comparison between strings from the beginning of the 20th century and manufacturing strings is shown. current. Kacper was born in Poland twenty-five years […]
Header image: Goethe in the Roman countryside ( source ) There are several documentary evidences that in plucked instruments it has always been difficult to maintain a stable tuning. Probably the use of gut strings has been the fundamental actor in this fact since, being a certainly hygroscopic material, it is very sensitive to changes […]
Semi-wound gut strings are first mentioned in an advertisement published in the book “Introduction to the Skill of Music “by John Playford , published in 1664. “Advertisement: There is a late invention of strings for the Basses of viols and violins or lutes, which sound much better and longer than the common gut string, […]
A new day for classical guitar During the Second World War, Andrés Segovia was invited to a meeting of the classical guitar society in Washington, days before starting a tour in South America. Segovia commented with those present at that meeting that he was about to run out of strings for his guitar, since during […]
The Aquila Corde classical guitar strings are now available at Cuerdas Pulsadas : the ALABASTRO family. We want this post to serve to provide all the necessary information to fully understand the use and characteristics of these ropes. String family ALABASTRO for classical guitar < / h3> Until the middle of the 20th century, the […]
In mid-2013, we incorporated into our catalog the casing that produces the most curiosity and satisfaction among our clients, both musicians and luthiers: Michel Frechina’s lamb gut frets. These frets are not subjected to whitening techniques (usually based on sulfur or other chemicals), so the frets preserve the natural color of the gut . Perhaps […]