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Me gustaría agradecer a Diego Cantalupi por escribir esta guía tan útil y por permitirnos publicarla en Cuerdas Pulsadas. No dudéis en contactar con nosotros si necesitáis cualquier tipo de ayuda o asesoramiento sobre el uso de cuerdas sintéticas o cualquier otro tipo. Primera premisa Es evidente que el uso de cuerdas […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
