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If a few years ago they had told me about a consolidated and reference festival in the Spanish panorama of early music, it would have been difficult for me to associate it with my beloved hometown, Zamora . However, and despite the difficulties, the International Music Festival “Pórtico de Zamora” is already an unmissable appointment […]
In this issue of the magazine produced by the English Lute Society we had the first reviews of Cuerdas Pulsadas. The first, on page 32, says: The website www.cuerdaspulsadas.com offers lute strings and fret gut for sale, from suppliers including Aquila, Pyramid and Savarez. The site also has a string calculator and an extensive library […]
The back cover of number 101 of Lute News, a magazine published by the Lute Society, was accompanied by the image of Cuerdas Pulsadas and La Mi Cinta Dorada. We were very excited to see this advertisement in full color and occupying an entire page! We encourage you to visit the Lute Society website […]
Once again the image of Cuerdas Pulsadas accompanied a new issue of Lute News, the magazine of the Lute Society. This time the ad was more accessible, as we were able to position ourselves on the back of the magazine in full color.
In September 2011 the new design of the website of the luthier Carlos González , in which we worked together for several months. Carlos González has one of the more extensive catalogs and care of the plucked string , Therefore, the website is very focused on carefully showing each instrument and the wide range of […]
The “ Society of the Vihuela, the lute and the guitar ” does not need an introduction for those of us who are part of the plucked string, but it is not needless to present it as a national cultural association (created in 2004) in order to spread and promote the knowledge and study of […]
Semi-wound gut strings are first mentioned in an advertisement published in the book “Introduction to the Skill of Music “by John Playford , published in 1664. “Advertisement: There is a late invention of strings for the Basses of viols and violins or lutes, which sound much better and longer than the common gut string, […]
Pyramid strings for Arabic and Turkish Oúd are now available in Cuerdas Pulsadas. We want this post to serve to provide all the necessary information to fully understand the use and characteristics of these strings. PYRAMID , in the string trade since 1850, has strings for practically every known instrument. All strings are made by […]
The Aquila Corde classical guitar strings are now available at Cuerdas Pulsadas : the ALABASTRO family. We want this post to serve to provide all the necessary information to fully understand the use and characteristics of these ropes. String family ALABASTRO for classical guitar < / h3> Until the middle of the 20th century, the […]
At the end of 2012 I worked closely with Sara Ruiz to launch the website of the Bellemont, shortly after they were completed. the recording of his first album, “La voix de la viole”. We created La Bellemont in the summer of 2007 with the hope of achieving an interpretation of the French repertoire for […]
