ECOLOGICAL CAMPAIGN FOR LUTES 2025
If you throw your synthetic lute strings in the plastic bin and place an order for historical gut strings (only via cart, no mail!) you will get 30% off! For information see Menu: Families of instruments - Lute family

NEWS FOR BASS VIOLA DA GAMBA: THE NEW MARAIS (brass) AND FORQUERAIS (silver with demi-filée) SETS ARE AVAILABLE
See Menu: Families of instruments - Viola da gamba family - Baroque bass

Premio Bonporti 16-19 October 2025 Rovereto (Italy): Violinists! Go with your harpsichordist or theorbist or harpist or cellist to the Premio Bonporti! Your accompanist will receive a grant. Deadline for applications 15 July. http://www.premiobonporti.it/

 

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

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

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

Mimmo PeruffoThe 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 StoppaniGut, in "Early Music Today", VII/3 (1999), pp.6-7

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

Mimmo PeruffoLe 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 BarbieriRoman 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 MeucciStrumentaio, Venezia 2008

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

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

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

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