PLEASE NOTE BEFORE PURCHASING:
COPPER LOADED STRINGS are custom-calculated and produced at the customer's request, so we do not accept returns unless they have obvious defects. Check the bridge and peg holes carefully before ordering, as these strings are about 1/4 thinner than bare gut strings, but not as thin as wound strings.

CORDEDRAGO STRINGS ARE HISTORICAL STRINGS, and it is known from iconography that broken cantini are a typical memento mori, so they are objects with a limited lifespan, and only basses can last two years or more. A professional knows this very well, but those who use modern strings do not, so we appeal to the common sense of customers for guarantees and claims for compensation, otherwise I have no problem changing business.

 

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Category: Scientific studies

 

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Stephen Bonta, From Violone to Violoncello: A Question of Strings?, in "Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society", III (1977), pp.64-99

Patrizio Barbieri, Giordano Riccati on the Diameters of Strings and Pipes, in "The Galpin Society Journal", XXXVIII (1985), pp.20-34

Ephraim Segerman, Strings through the Ages, in "The Strad", part. 1, January 1988, pp.20-34; part 2, Highly strung, March 1988, pp.195-201; part 3Deep tensions, April 1988, pp.295-299

Patrizio Barbieri, Cembalaro, organaro, chitarraro e frabbricatore di corde armonichenella "Polyanthea technica" di Pinaroli (1718-32), in "Recercare", I (1989), pp.123-205

Daniel Larson, The Inside Story of Gut Strings, in "British Violin Makers' Association Newsletter", XI (1998), pp.9-17

Mimmo Peruffo, The Mystery of Gut Bass Strings in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: the Role of Loaded-weightened Gut, in "Recercare", V (1993), pp.115-151

George Stoppani, Gut, in "Early Music Today", VII/3 (1999), pp.6-7

Oliver Webber, Real Gut Strings: Some New Experiments in Historical Stringing, in "The Consort", LV (Summer 1999), pp.3-29

Mimmo Peruffo, Le corde per chitarra tra il Settecento e l'avvento del nylon. Tipologie, tecniche manifatturiere e criteri di scelta, in "Il Fronimo", CXVII (Gennaio 2002), CXVIII (Aprile 2002), CXIX (Luglio 2002), CXX (Ottobre 2002)

Patrizio Barbieri, Roman and Neapolitan Gut Strings. 1550-1950, in "The Galpin Society Journal", LIX (2006), pp.147-181

Patrizio Barbieri,  The Roman Gut String-makers 1550-1950, in "Studi musicali", XXXV-1 (2006), pp.3-127

Renato Meucci, Strumentaio, Venezia 2008

Oliver Webber, Rethinking Gut Strings: a Guide for Players of Baroque Instruments, King's Music 2006

Daniela Gaidano, Splendore e decadenza dell'arte cordaia in Italia, ed.Lulu 2011

Kai Köpp-Jane Achtman-Johannes Gebauer, Saitenherstellung in Markneukirchen und im Vogtland, Meisterleistungen deutscher Instrumentenbaukunst, Band 8, Bern 2019

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