Fancy mix is not a good idea

Why if you work in difficult climate conditions it is fundamental that you use strings from only one company and you don’t do fancy mix up...

Every strings tends togo back to its past conditions, so as every string maker twist them and stretches them differently, it's really complicate to deal with strings from different makers.


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baroque music, double-bass strings, early music, gut strings, gut strings maintenance, viol strings, viola da gamba strings, viola strings, violin strings, violoncello strings


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