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Making modern strings at the D’Addario factory (quite old video). It looks like the machine is the same used in the past, to make handmade wound strings.
You're guided by Jim D’Addario himself explaining what is critical in the process, and the sensibility required by the worker.
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Gut strings were used for music, surgery and tennis. Music strings were the most difficult to make: many different gauges, and a high quality standard. Managing orders with so many different products and dealing with musicians requests… it was not an easy task! While surgery and tennis were bigger markets and more safe, they also they required
Read MoreA 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 MoreWhen I suggest roughly polished strings instead of smooth heavily polished ones, I often receive a squint like I am interfering with personal choices on musical taste, or with technical issues of an instrument which I have never seen, let alone played. It’s always been difficult for me to explain why I am firm on this
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