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...and wound strings?
...so once we got the idea, we can face the question: and with the wound ones? should we increase or decrease the tension?
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baroque music, double-bass strings, early music, equal tension, gut strings, gut strings history, gut strings maintenance, gut strings manufacture, viol strings, viola da gamba strings, viola strings, violin strings, violoncello strings
from Fomrhi Quarterly Bulletin I collected in two pdf files most of the articles appeared in the Fomrhi Quarterly Bulletin related to strings from 1990 up to 2018. I thought that you might appreciate them. If you do, please consider subscribing to them at the link below. It’s worth every pound (and it is really just
Read More5. Conclusions: Be Practical!! So far, you can probably guess my conclusion: If you aim to follow the treatises you shall not give a letteral interpretation but a practical one, and admit that equal feeling, equal tension, and scaled tension, had the same meaning: the aim is always playing on an even instrument. But if we cannot trust
Read MoreHow a set of strings was composed: keep it simple! With only 4 “gauges” of pure gut and two gauges of silver wire they could cover all the strings from violin to cello!
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