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.


Tags

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


You may also like

The Conscious Polisher

That’s me , or at least this is what I was in Aquila from 2002 up to 2016… On gauge imposed on a string by the polishing process… why half polished are definitely better and why the quality control and the polishing must be done by the same person. Want to know more? There’s a

Read More

Wound Strings Features

Everything it’s said in this great video is valid also for gut wound strings. Really clearly explained. We had round or ground wound (hand polished) until…. 1910 when Thomastick patented a machine to wound with flat wire.

Read More

What makes a good gut string?

Good gut strings: where do they come from? What does really make a difference for the quality of a gut string: in my opinion, the first factor which really affects the final quality of a string is that the numbers of gut strands used is balanced to the gauge we want to obtain. This is

Read More