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!
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Paganini asked for thin “e” strings... and got 70-72!
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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 MoreThe “fresh gut” part Let’s get started, and of course we start from Salle, in Abruzzi (Italy). We’ll go and see how a factory was organized in the 18th century. Yes, I said factory, not workshop. When you take out the intestine from a sheep, the first thing you need to do is to empty it someway.
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
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