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Picture nr. 1 : Antonio de Torres guitar (Opus 111, 1887) with a Llobet's musics and a Gut & Silk strings Picture nr. 2 and 3 : Antonio de Torres guitar: details of the bridge (with Gut & Silk strings) and fine rosette Picture nr. 4 : Miguel Llobet Picture nr. 5 : Antonio De Torres (1885 ca) Picture nr. 6 and 7 : The Gut & Silk’s envelope Picture nr. 8 : Torres's guitar nut with the Gut & Silk strings Picture nr. 9 : Torres'label Picture nr. 10 : 20th C. mandolin & guitar’s players Picture nr. 11 : 1st page of the Fernando Sor's method, 1st half of the 19th century (guitar string gauges are the same of the violin ones) Picture nr. 12 : 1st page of the Ferdinando Carulli method 1810 ca (guitar string gauges are the same of the violin ones) Picture nr. 13 : Fernando Sor's method, 1st half of the 19th century (guitar string gauges are the same of the violin ones) Picture nr. 14: Laura Mondiello and Giuseppe Carrer Picture nr. 15 : Ferdinando Carulli method 1810 ca (guitar string gauges are the same of the violin ones)
to learn more: read our FAQMinimum order100 euros (VAT non included) For orders less of 100 Euros: please contact our on-line shop:www.mercatinodellukulele.itHistorical Guitar Sets (suitable for a-435 Hz pitch)The sound of the Antonio de Torres- guitar strung with a Gut & Silk 900 set:
GUT & SILK 900 (1880-1946 performances)Up to the middle of the 20th century, the only available strings for guitar were plain gut for the trebles and wound on silk core for the basses.Their acoustical performance was quite different from that of modern stringings. The salient characteristics were a marked timbric presence, response and brightness typical of the thinner gut strings (certainly superior to plain nylon and in some respects closer to PVDF or carbon) while the basses, on the other hand, possessed an exquisitely vocal quality, i.e. not so bright as, and with less sustain than, modern wound on nylon strings and more fundamental heavy. The Treble tension- profile is not true scaling (like in use in all of the modern guitar's sets): it is just ligthly scaling, like the standard of that time. This set which is made with only one degree, of tension, riproposes excatly a historical assembling, tipycal of the period of Llobet and Tàrrega by using oily gut for trebles and wound basses, silver-copper covered on silk, as it was said by Pujol in the "Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra" of 1934. Please Read This!Useful information for people using the gut for the first time: in order to avoid the mistake of thinking that gut strings can be handled such as Nylon or Fluocarbon strings (PVF). 1) The gut strings have a higher cost than plastic materials because of long and difficult working steps (12-15 days required for getting a string) which are still entirely manual. 2) Remember that the lasting of a string of gut -as now- is traditionally much lower than that of Nylon and Fluocarbon ones: a few days only for the first string, and this due to the wear action of right hand nails and metal frets. Therefore please keep short nails, oval shaped. In practice a treble ( 1st string) that lasts 2-7 days is the norm now as it was at the time of Llobet. 3) The gut strings are NOT as smooth as those of Nylon or Fluocarbon as you have always been used to.. The surface is indeed like satin , could therefore require some tactile as well as psychological adaptation. 4) The sound of silk wound basses IS NOT like common modern wound strings made inside of Nylon multifilament: silk bass sound is less persistent, is more percussive and poor of overtones. This is normal, not a manufacturing fault, as sometimes the string could appear slightly inhomogeneous because of the silk, which is a natural product. 5) Why then are we still using gut and silk wound bass strings? Because the acoustic quality of natural material is still absolutely the best: those who have experienced the gut even just one time, are aware that it can evoke deep emotions and then make difficult to revert back to Nylon or Fluocarbon strings. 6) The gut-differently from Nylon and Fluocarbon- even being extremely resistant to traction is a very soft material which tends not to slide into the grooves of the nut (it can easily be sheared with teeth and often squashes or sticks) and is therefore quite sensitive to the cut. Before installing strings make sure that the grooves at the nut and at the bridge are shallow, perfectly smooth and absolutely without sharp edges. Otherwise you can use grit emery cloth 600 or fine-grained wool. At the end place in the polished furrows some soft graphite or well dried soap. Do not install gut strings on guitars that have mechanics of small diameter rollers ,which are suitable for metal strings. 7) To achieve a perfectly stable intonation in a few minutes you should pull laterally, and strong each string during tuning. Stop this operation until the string does not fall further in frequency. 8) Our set Gut & Silk 900 is designed for the typical early twentieth-century chorister equal to 435 Hz and vibrating length of the instrument around 65 cm. Choristers more acute and / or more vibrant lengths may affect the duration of the first string.
Again: gut is liable to suffer from cutting edges. Before stringing the instrument do make sure the nut and bridge are free from sharp edges and the nut grooves not too deep and perfectly smooth. GUT&SILK 900 SET 35.00 Euros, Codex: 64C GUT&SILK 900 BASSES 17.00 Euros, Codex: 65C GUT&SILK 900 TREBLES 20.00 Euros, Codex: 66C
GUT&SILK 900 SINGLE STRINGS 1st 'e' 5.70 Euros, Codex: 67C (.66 mm gut; tension: 8.6 Kg) 2nd 'h' 6.80 Euros, Codex: 68C (.82 mm gut; tension: 7.6 Kg) 3rd 'g' 8.60 Euros, Codex: 69C (1.00 mm gut; tension: 6.7 Kg) 4th 'D' 5.50 Euros, Codex: 70C (1.40 mm equiv gut; tension: 6.0 Kg; external diameter: .81 mm) 5th 'A' 6.00 Euros, Codex: 71C (2.00 mm equiv gut; tension: 7.7 Kg; external diameter: 1.00 mm) 6th 'E' 6.60 Euros, Codex: 72C (2.50 mm equiv gut; tension: 7.5 Kg; external diameter: 1.18 mm)
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AMBRA 900 (this is the syntetic version of the 'Gut & Silk 900 set)Up to the middle of the 20th century, the only available strings for guitar were plain gut for the trebles and wound on silk core for the basses: their acoustical performance was quite different from that of modern stringings. AMBRA 900 SET 13.50 Euros, Codex: 55C AMBRA 900 BASSES 9.00 Euros, Codex: 56C AMBRA 900 TREBLES 5.50 Euros, Codex: 57C
AMBRA 900 SINGLE STRINGS 1st 'e' 1.90 Euros, Codex: 58C (.66 mm Nylgut; tension: 8.6 Kg) 2nd 'h' 1.90 Euros, Codex: 59C (.82 mm Nylgut; tension: 7.6 Kg) 3rd 'g' 2.20 Euros, Codex: 60C (1.00 mm Nylgut; tension: 6.7 Kg) 4th 'D' 3.10 Euros, Codex: 61C (1.40 mm equiv gut; tension: 6.0 Kg; external diameter: .77 mm) 5th 'A' 3.30 Euros, Codex: 62C (2.00 mm equiv gut; tension: 7.7 Kg; external diameter: .91 mm) 6th 'E' 3.40 Euros, Codex: 63C (2.50 mm equiv gut; tension: 7.5 Kg; external diameter: 1.12 mm)
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