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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
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