LOADED GUT BASS STRINGS "C" TYPE

NOT IN PRODUCTION AT THIS TIME

INTRODUCTION
The appearance of wound strings caused, starting from the end of the 17th century, the definitive abandoning of the ancient manufacturing techniques of the traditional all-gut strings. This explains why modern plain gut strings fail to produce an acceptable acoustical performance in the low registers, thus making it necessary to use wound strings for music that actually pre-dates their historical appearance. This, in turn, presents an obvious philological paradox as well as serious tone and balance problems between high and low registers. Measurements from a large number of original bridges and tail pieces of plucked and bowed instruments dating from the late 16th and 17th Centuries show that the diameters of the bass string holes are too small to fit plain gut strings of sufficient working tension. Musical iconography from the 17th Century also shows strings of quite different colors from that typical of plain gut, varying from dark red to brown. Treatises of the time confirm, too, that strings possessed a remarkable duration of sound and acoustical exuberance. All this suggests a revolutionary hypothesis: the loading of gut, a technological strategy employed by the ancient string makers in order to render the strings to be used in the low registers more sonorous.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
These are varnished natural gut strings, characterized by a high, standardized specific weight achieved by a loading process with a special mineral compound. Diameters smaller than 185 "C" are manufactured with a gradual loading decrease, in order to keep the otherwise excessive brightness of sound of the thinner strings under control and at the same time to obtain a higher tensile resistance and a longer playing life. Caution: do not exceed a frequency working index (vibrating string length in meters x frequency in Hz) of 80, as the string will break.
Note: The C type string formula is protected by U.S. and international patents

COLOR: REDDISH BROWN, SURFACE PERFECTLY SMOOTH AND VARNISHED.

ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES AND FIELD OF APPLICATION
Strong and warm tone, without the excessive brightness typical of wound strings, perfectly coherent with the tone and dynamics character of plain, or even nylon, high strings. Excellent in tuning stability, better than any plain gut or wound strings available today. Indispensable for Renaissance and Baroque stringing with the strictest respect to authenticity. Care should be taken not to twist them in the direction opposite to the one they already have.

THIS PRODUCT IS COMPLETELY NON-TOXIC.

NOTE: C TYPE STRINGS ARE NOT IN PRODUCTION AT THIS TIME.