High Twist Gut HR (demi-rectified oiled strings)

INTRODUCTION

The origin of the employment of gut to make musical strings is lost in the mists of time. Along the centuries manufacturing techniques were gradually refined until they reached the perfection unanimously recognized as the trademark of Italian and French stringmakers in the 17th to 19th century.
The scope of our work, supported by constant research and painstaking experimentation, is to offer natural gut strings produced by modern craftsmen working in the ancient Italian/French string-makers manufacturing criteria that for centuries has been passed on from one generation to the next, sure to offer you the very best of our tradition and aiming to reach the magic of sound that only gut, of all materials, can achieve.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AND FIELD OF APPLICATION

First choice plain gut strings for general use in high
and mid registers. All strings more than 0.50 mm. in diameter are exclusively high twist and undergo a specific processing aiming to ensure maximum elasticity and grant the best acoustical performance, ease of attack and long playing life, as proven by many acoustics and wear-and-tear tests.

The new product we offer instead of the varnished gut strings are the semi-rectified strings (HR types) .

String -varnishing is a modern treatment which was never used historically (gut strings were kept in olive or almond oil) and its sole purpose is granting a longer string playing life. But this happens at the cost of other aspects, the most important being a loss of sound quality, brightness for example, but also the bowing attack is not as efficient as with unvarnished gut.
The surface of the demi- rectified strings is only partly rectified, imitating the manual polishing techique of the time just to obtain a true string.
With this method the amount of fibers damaged by the abrasive action is noticeably reduced as compared with strings rectified with modern procedures. The advantages are: better stability against climatic changes, longer playing life and better acoustic performance.
We tested these strings for a long time: they best imitate historic hand- polishing in that they damage only a small amount of gut fibers as compared with current rectifying methods.The advantages are:
an improved stability by climatic changes, longer playing life (similar to those of the vernished ones) and superior acoustical performance.
Owing to the special manufacturing technique employed in the production of the demi-rectified string type, the diameters in this table indicate a mean value.
E.g. a 66 string indicates, in fact, a possible diameter-window between 65 and 67.

IMPORTANT

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.
You can get rid of sharp edges with very fine grit sandpaper (600, for example) or the finest steelwool (000).
The best sound quality develops when the strings have completely set, which may ordinarily take sometime. To achieve a stable intonation in just a few minutes you can repeatedly pinch each string at midlength with your fingers, pull it decidedly sideways and tune it up again. Stop when the string does not pull out of tune anymore.

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PRICES FOR HR GUT

NOTE: gauges are expressed in hundred of millimeters (i.e. 120 = 1,20 mm) gut gauges on the tables are considered at the making standard condition of 20 ° C and 60 % degree of humidity.

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Lenght 120 cm euros excluding IVA / VAT / TAV (except UE customers)

Lenght 180 cm euros excluding IVA / VAT / TAV (except UE customers)

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Lenght 120 cm euros excluding IVA / VAT / TAV (except UE customers)

Lenght 180 cm euros excluding IVA / VAT / TAV (except UE customers)

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116 HR

14,90

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120 HR

16,80

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124 HR

16,80

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128 HR

16,80

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132 HR

16,80

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136 HR

16,80

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140 HR

19,10

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145 HR

19,10

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150 HR

19,10

38,20

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155 HR

19,10

38,20

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160 HR

20,90

41,70

60 HR

6,20

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165 HR

20,90

41,70

62 HR

6,20

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170 HR

20,90

41,70

64 HR

7,70

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180 HR

24,00

48,30

66 HR

7,70

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190 HR

26,90

53,80

68 HR

7,70

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200 HR

26,90

53,80

70 HR

7,70

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210 HR

31,40

62,50

73 HR

7,70

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220 HR

31,40

62,50

76 HR

9,20

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230 HR

31,40

62,50

79 HR

9,20

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240 HR

34,40

68,70

82 HR

9,20

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250 HR

34,40

68,70

85 HR

9,20

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260 HR

34,40

68,70

88 HR

9,20

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280 HR

42,90

86,00

91 HR

11,60

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300 HR

42,90

86,00

94 HR

11,60

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320 HR

47,80

89,70

97 HR

11,60

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340 HR

47,80

89,70

100 HR

11,60

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400 HR

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94,10

104 HR

11,60

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420 HR

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98,90

108 HR

11,60

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440 HR

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103,60

112 HR

14,90

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460 HR

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110,60

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Recent comments

Seoung Don MinWe’re so satisfied with your product.Thank you for everything and honored I like this nice bright tone and rapid attack response.also I think (as you written down the back of the pack) tone stability is quite nice

Del Ventruella – US…My first reaction, when I installed this strings, was to tell myself to send Aquila a message and proclaim the guy who came up with these red label strings to be a genius! (Probably tired of hearing that by now…)

M° Marcello AppignaniI have tried a lot of different brands of guitar strings but I never heard a sound so fitting to me! I am an ”anomalous” guitarist because I play also on the piano so I cannot have long nails and with the classical guitar strings Alabastro I got the sound I looked for.

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Oddbjorn Larsen – NorwayI got my Thunder reds for my Kala ubass yesterday. Put them on right away. Last night at rehearsal with my band. They all loved the tone, and for me the playability is way better than the standard strings. The deep E is loud and clear and makes it easy to make a statement for the bassist with a small bass.
Thanks a lot

David Stanley – UK…My set of Alchemia lasted over four months without losing their tone or their volume. That is a big compliment to the strings. Other strings would occasionally last me six weeks, other strings normally only last me about two weeks!

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Kreg Viesselman – NorwayMy luthier, Leonardo Michelin-Salomon of LMS guitars, gave me a set of your strings to try on the guitar he made for me. Simply put, I love them.

SYMON HOLMES – UKGuys! I have just strung my soprano,concert and banjouke with your red strings, they are awesome!
The sound is rich, the tonation beautiful and the low G for the concert uke is a wonder to behold. My instruments have never sounded so good. I thought my other Aquila strings were good…..but these…..WOW!
My brother-in-law also plays uses and I have bought him two sets also.
Thank you sooooo much for making these strings

Michael Malley – USA…I love the low g red series for the Ukulele. On my concert uke it works great…

KIM MEYER – CANADAEventually I got my banjo tuned to standard G tuning….I had to shorten a couple of the strings because of too many wraps around the tuner post, but now it stays in tune.I love these Nylgut strings…

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I’am playing ukulele for a few years now and I’am in love with Aquila strings. I always use Aquila strings…

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Julian Roach – UK… After two weeks of playing on them every day I am still delighted with them….I find them molto cantabile, with excellent sustain, quick in their response and highly responsive to variation in touch. They bring a new kind of sound out of my Sakurai-Kohno, a very ’alive’ kind of sound. I normally play on D’Addario Pro Arte, which I regard both as excellent strings and good value. Alabastros cost a lot more, but I will pay the difference for their distinctive charm. I thought you might like to know that you have a customer in the UK who is very pleased with your strings…

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Michael Curry – USAAlabastro, basses were nice and round, with plenty of edge to cut through, a very good string with lots of volume….Nylgut- Extremely dynamic string, these are loud with better tone than carbon strings, all the brightness one would ever wantI would keep them on 2 of my 5 guitars though, because the grip on them is amazing, the unbelievable dynamic range, and they are warmer than carbon…. I must admit, I have been using very clear nylon strings over the yearsso nylgut was a nice in-between alternative, I think I will buy more in the future for sure..The Bionylon felt great under my fingers, and I loved the sustain when I would do a glissando.