Aquila 7B Minstrel Banjo Strings (for Briggs dGDF#A tuning only) Wound 4th String
Until the mid-20th century Banjos 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 lute-makers, composers and performers
alike. A fundamental aim of our research has therefore been to make a new
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 New Nylgut® has precisely these qualities: allowing one,
on the one hand, to rediscover the sonorities familiar to the great late 19th
and 20th century masters; and guaranteeing, on the other, a stability of tuning
higher even than that of the best gut and nylon strings.
Please notice: Just like gut, New Nylgut® 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).
7B
MINSTREL BANJO SET (for Briggs dGDF#A tuning only)
Medium
