Aquila 15U Ten Ukulele Nylgut Strings
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Cheaper, stronger, and more durable, these Nylgut synthetic strings sound similar to classic gut strings -- brighter and crisper than typical nylon strings.
Overview
The Aquila 15U belongs to Aquila's Nylgut series, a series designed to reproduce the promptness of attack and brilliance of timbre that characterize original gut strings. Aquila aimed to design a synthetic string that has the same acoustic properties of a gut, but without its typical limitations.
The Nylgut series allows the player to rediscover the sonorities familiar to the great 19th and 20th century ukulele masters, while guaranteeing a stability of tuning higher than that of the even the best gut and nylon strings. Until the mid-20th century, Ukuleles were mounted exclusively in gut, a material that had been used for thousand of years and that combines excellent promptness of attack with brilliance of timbre -- very different, in other words, from modern nylon strings. And until recently the typical sound quality of gut has been a constant point of reference for luthiers, composers and performers alike.
A fundamental aim of our research has therefore been to make a synthetic product having the same acoustic properties as gut -- but without its typical defects - (high cost, limited duration and high instability under varying climatic).
The Nylgut series allows the player to rediscover the sonorities familiar to the great 19th and 20th century ukulele masters, while guaranteeing a stability of tuning higher than that of the even the best gut and nylon strings. Until the mid-20th century, Ukuleles were mounted exclusively in gut, a material that had been used for thousand of years and that combines excellent promptness of attack with brilliance of timbre -- very different, in other words, from modern nylon strings. And until recently the typical sound quality of gut has been a constant point of reference for luthiers, composers and performers alike.
A fundamental aim of our research has therefore been to make a synthetic product having the same acoustic properties as gut -- but without its typical defects - (high cost, limited duration and high instability under varying climatic).
Specs
The Aquila 15U string set has a string length of 76cm.
1- .65mm
2- .82mm
3- .97mm
4- Wound-TENOR LOW-G TUNING, key of C (1 wound string)
1- .65mm
2- .82mm
3- .97mm
4- Wound-TENOR LOW-G TUNING, key of C (1 wound string)
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