Pirastro in strings history
Pirastro in strings history. Pirastro, the best modern gut string available on the market.A family-run company which was always a leader in innovation without giving up tradition. Chapeau!
Read MoreSorry, this video is only in Italian, it would be too time consuming to translate it world by world.
I just discovered this video from Takumi’s blog, which I recommend to you all, liuteriatakumi.
I love it because most of these men and women I had the occasion to interview them personally in 2007, and the ones I didn’t are confirming what I knew. I was so happy to see them still healthy after 10 years, they are more than 80 years old now.
I hope you can enjoy this and the Italian atmosphere coming from it despite the language!
By the way, I collected all the interviews that Mimmo Peruffo and I made in Salle in a book which is for sale on Amazon, check it out:
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baroque music, double-bass strings, early music, gut strings, gut strings history, gut strings maintenance, gut strings manufacture, viol strings, viola da gamba strings, viola strings, violin strings, violoncello strings
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