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On the sensibility required to make wound strings
Wound strings are a matter of hand sensibility and control of the string maker: even if a machine is involved, it is real craftsmanship to make a good wound string. The factors involved are many, from the quality and gauge of the core, how much it is dried (which affects the latter of course and also the percentage of core versus metal), and how much the metal wire is stretched from the hand of the maker (which again can result in a false string for the inconsistency of gauge of the wire but also of the core, because the hand pulling to much the wire will also pull the core and stretching it...)
In this old video Mimmo Peruffo is showing at Aquila strings factory how he makes a Cello C
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Bosko and Honey are two ukulele virtuoso players from Australia whom in 2008 toured the world with their project Ukulele Safari. Basically they were able to spend one year around the globe hosted from the network of ukulele players that they knew through their youtube channel. A great couple. They visited Vicenza participating to the first
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This video is amazing! It shows many “secrets”, though I could not follow it all because I cannot speak Japanese. The beginning is very istructive: the method for cutting stripes is described in Labarraque, 1823. Never seen that applied before!From the mid on I could not really understand what he is doing and why, but
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