Aquila Strenge til Barokcello (Set, Varnished, Beef gut)

These ready-made sets are composed of strings with a standard length of 120 cm and diameters suitable for required tension.

Cello A
Light: 112HV - Varnished gut string    1.12 mm    120 cm 
Medium: 116HV - Varnished gut string    1.16 mm    120 cm    
Heavy: 120HV - Varnished gut string    1.20 mm    120 cm  

Cello D
Light: 150HV    150HV - Varnished gut string    1.50 mm    120 cm
Medium: 155HV - Varnished gut string    1.55 mm    120 cm   
Heavy: 160HV - Varnished gut string    1.60 mm    120 cm 

Cello G
Light: 46F - G baroque cello light tension silver close wound type "F" standard    2.40 mm equivalent gut    110 cm  
Medium: 47F - G baroque cello medium tension silver close wound type "F" standard    2.50 mm equivalent gut    110 cm 
Heavy: 48F - G baroque cello heavy tension silver close wound type "F" standard    2.60 mm equivalent gut    110 cm

Cello C
Light: 52F - C baroque cello light tension silver close wound type "F" standard    3.60 mm equivalent gut    110 cm
Medium: 53F - C baroque cello medium tension silver close wound type "F" standard    3.80 mm equivalent gut    110 cm
Heavy: 54F - C baroque cello heavy tension silver close wound type "F" standard    3.90 mm equivalent gut    110 cm

Why shall I choose a ready-made set instead of single strings?
We suggest to choose a set if you do not feel completely sure of the diameters, because you are beginning, or have little time. The gauges and the type of strings included in our sets meet the needs of most of our customers. This way you don’t have to expect for a bad surprise. A personalized setup of your instrument can start from here: by raising or lowering the whole setup by half a tone, you can easily know if your next setup, the definitive one, will need more or less tension or even remain unchanged as per our suggestion.

Aquila Product Information
The origin of the employment of gut to make musical strings is lost in the mists of time. Along the centuries manufacturing techniques were gradually refined until they reached the perfection unanimously recognized as the trademark of Italian and French stringmakers in the 17th to 19th century.

The scope of our work, supported by constant research and painstaking experimentation, is to offer natural gut strings produced by modern craftsmen working in the ancient Italian/French string-makers manufacturing criteria that for centuries has been passed on from one generation to the next, sure to offer you the very best of our tradition and aiming to reach the magic of sound that only gut, of all materials, can achieve.

BEEF GUT STRINGS, TYPE HV
Smooth gut strings with varnished surface. The type of varnish we use is the result of careful research to ensure perfect compatibility with the elasticity of the gut, excellent contact with the horsehair of the bow, maximum protection against mechanical wear and tear and fold and, finally, great stability at changes in humidity.

IMPORTANT
Gut is liable to suffer from cutting edges. Before stringing the instrument do make sure the nut and bridge are free from sharp edges and the nut grooves not too deep and perfectly smooth.

You can get rid of sharp edges with very fine grit sandpaper (600, for example) or the finest steelwool (000).

The best sound quality develops when the strings have completely set, which may ordinarily take sometime. To achieve a stable intonation in just a few minutes you can repeatedly pinch each string at midlength with your fingers, pull it decidedly sideways and tune it up again. Stop when the string does not pull out of tune anymore.