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Why I don’t like varnished strings: Maybe if you live in a very humid place, like Vietnam or Japan, it looks like this is the only solution. It may be true in fact if you want to buy a “ready to use” string.But if you have the patience of organizing your olive oil process and
Read MoreGood gut strings: where do they come from? What does really make a difference for the quality of a gut string: in my opinion, the first factor which really affects the final quality of a string is that the numbers of gut strands used is balanced to the gauge we want to obtain. This is
Read MoreWhy most of the strings factories gave up gut production in the mid of the 20th century? I think there were two reasons for this. Not the advent of metal strings, or modern music, these were consequences. 1. The working conditions were not sustainable any more 2. The factories had to invest huge amount of money for disposal
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