🇺🇸 Due to new regulations, shipments to the USA are frozen.For more information: hola@cuerdaspulsadas.com
🇺🇸 Debido a nuevas regulaciones, los envíos a EE. UU. están pausados.Para más información: hola@cuerdaspulsadas.com
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Synthetic “CD loaded” bass strings manufactured by Aquila Corde are now available again in Cuerdas Pulsadas. We have a first batch that includes all gauges between 0.75 and 2.20, which we were able to pick up by hand during the Vihuela Society meeting in Madrid, thanks to the kindness of Mimmo Peruffo. […]
We are proud to announce that CD loaded synthetic gauges below 1.10 are now available on Cuerdas Pulsadas. The CD bass lute strings are smooth synthetic loaded strings characterized by a high, standardized specific weight, achieved by a loading extruding process with very thin metallic copper powder made in the range of 115 CD till […]
Aquila Corde makes an interesting variety of strings available to guitarists, where each set has characteristics that make it unique. At Cuerdas Pulsadas we have practically the entire offer for Aquila Corde classical guitar and, to facilitate your decision, we have condensed here all the information about these strings. […]
For the entire Canarian timple community that already enjoyed Cuerdas Pulsadas, we have finally incorporated the specific sets that Aquila Corde prepares for this instrument. Until the 50s in the 20th century, only gut strings were used for the Charango, Roncoco, Timple Canario and the Cuatro, where the speed of response was combined […]
Aquila Corde’s latest creation for classical guitar is now available in Cuerdas Pulsadas: el juego de cuerdas RUBINO. The innovation of these strings is based on a basic problem: the manufacture of strings for low frequencies requires increasing the diameter of the same, and a well-known solution: reducing the diameter of the strings allows […]
This time we welcome the strings of Aquila Corde to Oúd . All the well-known advantages of the new nylgut are included in these complete sets, available for both Arabic and Turkish tuning. Specifically, the game for Arabic tuning is designed with these characteristics (11 strings, normal tension): 1st c: 2x New Nylgut 2nd […]
D e among all the symbols that the lute has meant throughout history: pleasure, joy, eroticism, festive atmosphere, sensuality , concordia , melancholy (semper Dowland, semper dolens) … there is one, not so well known, that was perfectly reflected by the artists of the time. So, although the lute is always associated with the […]
A couple of weeks ago we received at Cuerdas Pulsadas a statement from Aquila Corde, in which they indicated the complete replacement of the gauges smaller of the new nylgut for a new improved batch (from 0.36 to 0.46). The most significant improvements are the increase in the resistance of the material (to avoid breakage), […]
Featured image: Eclogue of Theodulus, printed in Leipzig 1492 Although until now there were no specific strings for harp in the Cuerdas Pulsadas catalog, we do have several customers who already use the strings in our catalog to string harps. Some of these customers, with whom we maintain closer contact, told us that they dyed […]
Now available at Cuerdas Pulsadas gut sets and gutting on silk Silk by Aquila Corde. Until the middle of the 20th century, guitar strings were manufactured exclusively with gut for the highs and wound on silk for the basses, where the acoustic result of this arrangement was very different from that obtained with the synthetic […]
