Viol & Violone Strings

Type: Luxline gut Gauge: 1.25mm Length: 90cm Tension: Medium Nicholas Baldock’s Kathedrale and Antiquus strings are increasingly popular with baroque string players.

Type: Unvarnished gut Gauge: 1.25mm Length: 90cm Tension: Medium Nicholas Baldock’s Kathedrale and Antiquus strings are increasingly popular with baroque string players.

Type: Luxline gut Gauge: 1.30mm Length: 90cm Tension: Heavy Nicholas Baldock’s Kathedrale and Antiquus strings are increasingly popular with baroque string players.

Type: Unvarnished gut Gauge: 1.12mm Length: 90cm Tension: Heavy Nicholas Baldock’s Kathedrale and Antiquus strings are increasingly popular with baroque string players.

Gauge: 0.78mm Tension: Heavy Length: Double Length Type: Unvarnished Gut This is a double length treble gut string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. This gut is available only in the natural color which varies from white to a pale straw hue. Beef serosa has a higher tensile strength than does sheep gut, so this string is useful for instruments that require extra durability. If your instrument has a longer string length which puts beyond the comfortable range for gut strings, the beef gut would be a good choice for string material as it will stand the strain a little better. Beef gut is processed to be a little harder than the other kinds of gut and also has a lower twist of about 15 degrees to increase the strength. Browse all Gamut Academie strings available at the Early Music Shop.

Gauge: 0.72mm Tension: Light + Length: Double Length Type: Unvarnished Gut This is a double length treble gut string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. This gut is available only in the natural color which varies from white to a pale straw hue. Beef serosa has a higher tensile strength than does sheep gut, so this string is useful for instruments that require extra durability. If your instrument has a longer string length which puts beyond the comfortable range for gut strings, the beef gut would be a good choice for string material as it will stand the strain a little better. Beef gut is processed to be a little harder than the other kinds of gut and also has a lower twist of about 15 degrees to increase the strength. Browse all Gamut Academie strings available at the Early Music Shop.

Gauge: 1.28mm Tension: Medium + Length: Single Length Type: Pistoy This is a single length, (24"), double twist Beef gut Pistoy style string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. The string comes with plain, unknotted ends. The Pistoy string is a unique development of Daniel Larson at Gamut Strings. It is named for the town in Italy which was famous for producing the best string for basses, being "flexible, smooth, and well twisted". This reproduction is made of three strands of gut twisted in one direction and then the three combined together by twisting in the other direction in rope fashion. When dry, the string is polished down to the specific gauge required by the instrument. The results are a very flexible string with a quick response and a full, round sound. This is not a polished catline as some think. At first glance this might look like such a thing. However, the Pistoy is fundamentally a different kind of string. It shares one trait with the catline in that the string is made with two directions of twist. This is where the similarity ends. The Pistoy has no space in the structure like the catline does and therefore has the same density as any plain gut string. The Pistoy is expensive to make because it takes a lot of time to sort the gut into small bundles to twist and retwist. The gain is in the flexibility. Even in thick strings the string remains supple and responsive. The string is characterized by a noticeable twist and flexible feel. The color ranges from clear white on thinner strings, (1.00 mm to 1.10 mm), to opaque yellow on thick strings. Browse all Gamut Academie Gut Strings available at the Early Music Shop.

Gauge: 1.26mm Tension: Medium Length: Single Length Type: Pistoy This is a single length, (24"), double twist Beef gut Pistoy style string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. The string comes with plain, unknotted ends. The Pistoy string is a unique development of Daniel Larson at Gamut Strings. It is named for the town in Italy which was famous for producing the best string for basses, being "flexible, smooth, and well twisted". This reproduction is made of three strands of gut twisted in one direction and then the three combined together by twisting in the other direction in rope fashion. When dry, the string is polished down to the specific gauge required by the instrument. The results are a very flexible string with a quick response and a full, round sound. This is not a polished catline as some think. At first glance this might look like such a thing. However, the Pistoy is fundamentally a different kind of string. It shares one trait with the catline in that the string is made with two directions of twist. This is where the similarity ends. The Pistoy has no space in the structure like the catline does and therefore has the same density as any plain gut string. The Pistoy is expensive to make because it takes a lot of time to sort the gut into small bundles to twist and retwist. The gain is in the flexibility. Even in thick strings the string remains supple and responsive. The string is characterized by a noticeable twist and flexible feel. The color ranges from clear white on thinner strings, (1.00 mm to 1.10 mm), to opaque yellow on thick strings. Browse all Gamut Academie Gut Strings available at the Early Music Shop.

Gauge: 1.26mm Tension: Medium Length: Single Length Type: Lyon This is a single length, (24"), single twist Lyon style string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand- rubbed with a light oil. The string comes with plain, unknotted ends. Named after the town in France which was famous for a particular type of flexible gut string. From the 16th Century these strings were recommended as being some of the best strings for basses. Gamut's reproduction of this string is made from gut specially processed in our shop to be soft and responsive. The gut is twisted in one direction to about 45 degrees for the optimum combination of durability and flexibility. The Lyon string is not as flexible as the Pistoy string. Both Lyon and Pistoy can be used for the same string positions. The Lyon should be preferred when a little extra stiffness is required under the bow or finger. This type of string is characterized by a tight and visible twist. The color tends toward opaque light to medium yellow. Browse all Gamut Academie Gut Strings available at the Early Music Shop.

Gauge: 0.96mm Tension: Light + Length: Single Length Type: Unvarnished Gut This is a single length treble gut string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. This gut is available only in the natural color which varies from white to a pale straw hue. Beef serosa has a higher tensile strength than does sheep gut, so this string is useful for instruments that require extra durability. If your instrument has a longer string length which puts beyond the comfortable range for gut strings, the beef gut would be a good choice for string material as it will stand the strain a little better. Beef gut is processed to be a little harder than the other kinds of gut and also has a lower twist of about 15 degrees to increase the strength. Browse all Gamut Academie Gut Strings available at the Early Music Shop.

Gauge: 0.94mm Tension: Light + Length: Single Length Type: Unvarnished Gut This is a single length treble gut string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. This gut is available only in the natural color which varies from white to a pale straw hue. Beef serosa has a higher tensile strength than does sheep gut, so this string is useful for instruments that require extra durability. If your instrument has a longer string length which puts beyond the comfortable range for gut strings, the beef gut would be a good choice for string material as it will stand the strain a little better. Beef gut is processed to be a little harder than the other kinds of gut and also has a lower twist of about 15 degrees to increase the strength. Browse all Gamut Academie Gut Strings available at the Early Music Shop.

Gauge: 1.00mm Tension: Heavy Length: Single Length Type: Unvarnished Gut This is a single length treble gut string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. This gut is available only in the natural color which varies from white to a pale straw hue. Beef serosa has a higher tensile strength than does sheep gut, so this string is useful for instruments that require extra durability. If your instrument has a longer string length which puts beyond the comfortable range for gut strings, the beef gut would be a good choice for string material as it will stand the strain a little better. Beef gut is processed to be a little harder than the other kinds of gut and also has a lower twist of about 15 degrees to increase the strength. Browse all Gamut Academie Gut Strings available at the Early Music Shop.

Gauge: 0.72mm Tension: Light + Length: Single Length Type: Unvarnished Gut This is a single length treble gut string made with beef serosa. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. This gut is available only in the natural color which varies from white to a pale straw hue. Beef serosa has a higher tensile strength than does sheep gut, so this string is useful for instruments that require extra durability. If your instrument has a longer string length which puts beyond the comfortable range for gut strings, the beef gut would be a good choice for string material as it will stand the strain a little better. Beef gut is processed to be a little harder than the other kinds of gut and also has a lower twist of about 15 degrees to increase the strength. Browse all Gamut Academie Gut Strings available at the Early Music Shop.