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Do you ever struggle during a concert for false intonation...
just to discover that while your pure gut strings were going down, the wound ones were going up?
please comment below to share your experience and suggestions!
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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
Making modern strings at the D’Addario factory (quite old video). It looks like the machine is the same used in the past, to make handmade wound strings. You’re guided by Jim D’Addario himself explaining what is critical in the process, and the sensibility required by the worker.
Read MoreHow polishing has changed through the centuries, from hand to machines …and, most important for us, from delivering on the market strings sorted by numbers of strands (so to say, in a 3 strands bulk you can find strings from 60 to 76) to deliver strings singularly packaged and labelled with a precise gauge. Polishing
Read MoreFrom the famous BBC serie …the string maker is at minute 39′, the hands of the string maker belogs to Mr. George Stoppani
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