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Closest to Gut string sound
Afternoon
What strings in production sound the closest to gut ? Mainly in the 3 trebles Thanks ! |
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https://www.stringsbymail.com/classi...s-1/aquila-52/ The company specializes in making new synthetic formulations designed to be used on early instruments and to mimic gut, so they might be an acceptable substitute. |
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Not Steve,
I’ve been told that the fluorocarbon strings more closely replicate the gut strings. I haven’t done the experiment myself as yet mainly due to the high cost and relatively short life of the gut strings. I would be very interested to hear your resuts. |
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Aquila Nylgut are pretty close, designed to produce a similar sound. |
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Aquila Nylgut 'claim' to have a gut sound. I like them but I have never played true gut strings to compare. The Nylgut strings though, they just seem to stay in tune really well.
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Thanks for the replies
I think I'll try real Gut just for grins, Segovia played gut for decades I guess i can play it for a week or so |
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If you're using nails, make sure they're perfect. It's very easy to ruin a gut string, especially
the high e string. I've done it more than once.
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As others have said, Aquila Nylgut. I would recommend specifically the Aquila Ambra 800 & 900 sets.
Nate
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Another option is Martin Magnificos:
https://www.stringsbymail.com/martin...ion-20432.html I have never played real gut strings myself, but I found these strings to be really different. I liked both the tone and feel of these, they also lasted a long time for me.
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I've tried different strings - nylon, nyl-gut, carbon, and gut. Really nothing sounds like gut but gut. The nyl-gut strings kind of lean in that direction, but to me, they still sound like nylon strings.
True gut is, of course, expensive. I have a baroque guitar with 5 courses (9 strings) and it costs about $90 to string it. Of course the strings don't corrode, so they sound good longer. Except the treble string, in particular, breaks most often. |
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"..really nothing sounds like gut but gut."
That's how I hear them, as well.
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bonzer5 Last edited by Carey; 06-20-2023 at 01:52 PM. |
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So far my favorite classical strings are Galli Genius, hard tension Titanio.
I bought them because I read that Jason Vieaux used them. Recently I checked again and now he uses Augustine strings, so I may try them.
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I will. I just put them on. Stretching will take a couple of days I suppose.
I can do a demo comparing them to a set of Augustine Black low tension 28 32 40 28.5 32.5 43.5 that I've had on for 7 months. The guitar wasn't heavily played during that time, only the past month or so have I been playing it every day. I did some recordings on the 19th of a tune I'm working on and a snippit or two are fair enough for public exposure. I'll play the same thing and post both short recordings in a new thread.
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