HISTORICAL GUITAR AMBRA 900® SETS
(this is the syntetic version of the Gut & Silk 900® set)
Up to the middle of the 20th century, the only available strings for guitar
were plain gut for Trebles and silk wound strings for basses: their acoustical
performance was quite different from that of modern stringings.
The salient characteristics were: a marked tonal presence, response and
brightness typical of the gut strings (certainly superior to plain nylon and in
some respects closer to fluorocarbon strings) while the basses, on the other
hand, possessed an exquisitely vocal quality, i.e. not so bright as, and with
less sustain than, modern wound on nylon strings and more fundamental heavy.
Our Ambra 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 time of Llobet and Tàrrega. This set was conceived
for one grade of tension and consists of gut colour- Supernylgut® for Trebles,
adopting the representative mean diameters as indicated by Pujol in his ”
55C Aquila Ambra 900 Basses Normal Tension with SuperNylgut Trebles
