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A special knot from iconography
Do you miss your wolf tone eliminator device? Would you like a bit stiffer string but you cannot get another one right away? Maybe old painting are giving us a suggestion...
If you have other ideas about this knot, please share in the comments below this video, there’s nothing better than brainstorming for things like this!
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baroque music, double-bass strings, early music, gut strings, gut strings maintenance, viol strings, viola da gamba strings, viola strings, violin strings, violoncello strings
Thomastick-Infeld in strings history. Two of the greatest innovations of the 20th century come from Thomastick-Infeld, a company based in Wien: in 1914 they patented a machine to use the flat wire for the winding of a string, before of that the winding wire was always round, sometimes polished by hand after the winding process just before
Read MoreThe big political changes occurred between the 19th and 20th century completely changed the physiognomy of string production. Between 19th and 20th century big changes occurred, so much that we can hardly recognize the musical string of the 20th cent as an evolution of the Italian gut string of the 18th century. First of all during
Read MorePrice 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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