AQUILA bass viol string G

Gut string for baroque bass viol

Half rectified strings - This new string type replaces the varnished strings

String varnishing is a modern process and has never been used in the past. (Gut strings have been preserved in olive or almond oil for longer playing life, but at the cost of other properties, and especially loss of sound quality, and bow response is not as efficient as with unvarnished strings.)
The surface of the AQUILA »demi-rectified« strings is only partially ground, imitating only the manual polishing process to obtain a string true to original. With this method, the number of ground fibers is significantly reduced compared to modern methods.
The advantages are: better resistance to climatic fluctuations, longer durability and better acoustic characteristics.

• Gut string for baroque bass viol
• Gut equivalent, silver wound
  
• for stringing after ca. 1690, calculated for a pitch standard of 440 Hz
• vibrating string length: 70 cm
• Total length of the gut string: 180 cm
• 2 gauges available: medium (2,00 mm) or heavy (2,10 mm)