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Today Santa Cecilia , patron saint of music and poetry ( perhaps due to a translation error ), who was usually represented with three icons: the rose, the organ and the lute. Precisely like this it was represented by the French painter Jacques Blanchard (1600 –1638): So, congratulations to all the musicians! […]
We thank Joel López for sharing at Cuerdas Pulsadas the transposition to a current language of “Declaración de la cifra que en este libro se usa” which can be found in the essential book by Antonio Cabezón, “Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela”. For those who do not know Joel in his usual […]
Cover photo, courtesy of Cristina Quílez. Few are the plucked string soloists who dedicate themselves to the Renaissance and even fewer those who do so to the repertoire of the vihuela, where I think there is still much to study and listen to. To this select group we owe the rescue and dissemination of […]
Today I am proud to present a new initiative by Cuerdas Pulsadas on which we have been working in recent months: “< a href = "http://www.declaraciondeinstrumentos.com" target = "_ blank"> Declaration of Instruments “. Here many of the ideas that fluttered in Cuerdas Pulsadas have crystallized and, in addition, we have managed to link […]
Today we have the pleasure of sharing an interview with the musicologist Gracia María Gil < / a>, with whom I was fortunate to begin my studies of plucked string a few years ago in Salamanca, under the guidance of Rafael Muñoz. After returning from her stay at the University of Melbourne (where she […]
Given the great diffusion that our previous publication has had and the repercussion in the regional media that it has had the fantastic project of Fran and her students , I think the most appropriate thing is to collect these echoes here, in addition to the photos that were taken during Aníbal Soriano’s visit (president […]
A few months ago, John Griffiths shared with us an eye-catching project that was in the making in Trujillo (Cáceres) … The idea was so simple that we It seemed crazy: the technology students of the Francisco Orellana institute were embarking on the construction of nine vihuelas. Without prior knowledge of Lutheranism, without having previously […]
We are pleased to present, for the first time, one of the latest works by Kacper Wierzchoś: a qualitative and semi-quantitative chemical analysis of gut strings for guitar and bow, where a comparison between strings from the beginning of the 20th century and manufacturing strings is shown. current. Kacper was born in Poland twenty-five years […]
Until April 10, 2014, at Cuerdas Pulsadas we offer the best opportunity to acquire strings and frets. Aquila Corde , Pyramid , Savárez , Gamut , Michel Frechina … all the wide variety of strings in our catalog can be found with a 20% discount and, in addition, you can choose to send Free to […]
Header image: Goethe in the Roman countryside ( source ) There are several documentary evidences that in plucked instruments it has always been difficult to maintain a stable tuning. Probably the use of gut strings has been the fundamental actor in this fact since, being a certainly hygroscopic material, it is very sensitive to changes […]
