Aquila AMBRA 800® (the synthetic version of the Gut & Silk 800® set)
The sound of two Petitjean Lainč-guitars (Mirecourt, early 19th c.)
strung with Supernylgut trebles in gut colour and silk basses Fernando Sor
(1778-1839).
Our Ambra 800 set was developed keeping in mind this historical fact, in
order to best re-create, by means of modern synthetic materials, the sound of
gut and silk -wound basses of the 19 th century. This set was conceived for one
grade of tension and consists of rectified -gut coloured New Nylgut® for
Trebles, adopting the representative mean diameters as indicated by own
researches while for the basses (silvered copper wires wound on Nylgut®
multifilament core) we tried to find the right balance between wire and core,
which would recreate exactly the typical sound of the wound silk strings of the
time.
Gut
& Silk 800/Ambra 800 gauge
Note
mm
e
.62
b
.79
g
.91
D
1.36 mm equiv gut
A
1.80 mm equiv gut
E
2.30 mm equiv gut
