Old strings from England: silk or gut?
Thank you Michael Burnham for this great present!!
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Price lists and catalogues are great sources of information: read with me this price list from 1929 by Pirastro and see what we find there!
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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
Thank you Michael Burnham for this great present!!
Read MoreJames 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?
Read MoreAn autobiographical letter from Astro Di Russo – part 2 Due to the strong emigration, in 1960 I was forced to leave my village to settle in Naples. In Acerra, a nearby town with about 50,000 inhabitants, I started the production with 140 employees and later, in the 70s, I also opened a manufactury in
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