Strings Aquila

developed keeping in mind this historical fact.The new synthetic materialNylgut(synthetic gut) has the same acoustic properties as gut - but without its typical defects - (high cost, limited duration and high instability under varying climatic). 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 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 …