AQUILA bass viol string e

Bare gut string for bass viol (HV gut type)

The use of beef gut as an alternative to sheep gut dates back to the first half of the last century.

Beef gut enables a high level of standardization of the strings produced, which are only offered plain and lacquered.

This type of material meets the needs of those who are looking for reliability, safety, great durability, little change due to climatic changes and tuning stability even in high humidity. On the other hand, they are not recommended for those who mainly aim for the historicity and quality of the sound.

Polished and varnished strings (type HV)

The AQUILA gut strings are largely similar to the historical hand-polished strings in that they only have a fraction of the fibers ground through compared to the grinding methods that are otherwise common today.

• Gut string for bass viol
• polished and varnished
• For stringing after about 1690, calculated for a pitch of 415 Hz
• Vibrating string length: 70 cm
• Total length of the gut string: 120 cm

Due to the special manufacturing method of polished strings, the diameters represent average values ​​(e.g. a string with a diameter of 66 can be in a range of 65 - 67.