Aquila Gut and Silk 900 (1880-1946) Period Guitar Strings
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 Aquila Gut & Silk Strings Bad points: These strings are fragile and the gut strings in particular may last only a few days - so they are as authentic in longevity as they are in tonal quality. The makers are quite explicit about this. For this reason, we offer them for sale as a normal set of 6, or the set of 6 plus an extra e1 string, or the set of 6 plus another 3 trebles (e, b, g). Up to the middle of the 20th century, the only available strings for guitar were plain gut for the trebles and wire wound on silk core for the basses. Their acoustical performance was quite different to that of modern strings. The salient characteristics were a marked timbric presence, response and brightness typical of the thinner gut strings (certainly superior to plain nylon and in some respects closer to PVDF or carbon). The basses possessed an exquisitely vocal quality, i.e. not so bright as, and with less sustain than, modern wire wound on nylon strings and more fundamental heavy. The Treble tension- profile is not true scaling (like in use in all of the modern guitar's sets): it is just ligthly scaling, like the standard of that time. This set which is made with only one degree, of tension, reproduces exactly a historical process, typical of the period of Llobet and Tàrrega, by using oily gut for trebles and for the wound basses, silver-copper covered on silk, as it was laid out by Pujol in the "Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra" of 1934. Please note...Gut is liable to suffer from sharp edges. Before stringing an instrument do make sure the nut and bridge are free from sharp edges and the nut grooves not too deep and are perfectly smooth. You can get rid of sharp edges with very fine grit sandpaper (600, for example) or the finest steelwool (000). Aquila USA recommends that these strings must not be tuned above a=430hz! The best sound quality develops when the strings have completely set, which may ordinarily take sometime. To achieve a stable intonation in just a few minutes you can repeatedly pinch each string at midlength with your fingers, pull it decidedly sideways and tune it up again. Stop when the string does not pull out of tune anymore. String Tensions
Please remember that Aquila Gut and Silk strings are extremely sensitive to sharp edges or grooves in the guitar's nut and saddle and will fray prematurely and break easily if rough or sharp edges are in their path. The Aquila Brand
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