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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
…and the creation of the first wound violin A In this video I will read for you a correspondence between Roberto Salerni, an Italian string maker from the 50s, and the famous maker Pietro Sgarabotto.At first, Sgarabotto was anxious to try the wound A, being the A the only pure gut string remaining in a
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
Read MorePrimary sources can be everywhere, even on an old little banjo arriving from eBay, directly from the 40s…
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