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James Hill, Great ukulele virtuoso from Canada, playing a romantic song on my uke strung with gut strings... can’t you feel the sound of the 30s?
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baroque music, double-bass strings, early music, gut strings, gut strings history, gut strings maintenance, gut strings manufacture, ukulele strings, viol strings, viola da gamba strings, viola strings, violin strings, violoncello strings
A video from Superquark , ed. 2013. Superquark is a popular tv show in Italy, about science, art, history. It shows the manufacture of gut strings. At 2.06 it’s me cleaning the guts with the copper thimble.
Read MorePrice lists and catalogues are great sources of information: read with me this price list from 1929 by Pirastro and see what we find there!
Read MoreJust found this on YouTube: maybe this way to make the loop knot of the string is easier than mine, though less elegant here, to the post on how do I make it: go to knot post
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