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A unique feeling and a strong, consistent sound. Until now, it was necessary to increase 
the gauge of a string for it to produce a lower-pitched note. But increasing the string’s 
diameter also increases internal dampening. That makes the string less bright, less 
responsive and more muffled; the thicker the string, the duller the sound. Our revolutionary 
new approach — unique to us — changes the specific weight of the material, increasing it 
progressively to leave the gauge almost unchanged.

The result is amazing: instruments sound brighter, more powerful and more responsive through 
the entire range of the fret board. The strings also maintain their intonation better, because 
thicker strings need to be fretted harder, pulling them further out of tune.

RED SERIES sets provide superior performance over traditional strings for musicians who love 
bright sounds and powerful performance across the full scale of the instrument.

You never heard a sound like this before, simply because before it did not exist.

Until mid-20th century, Banjos used exclusively gut strings, 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 conditions). 
Nylgut® has precisely these qualities, allowing the rediscovery of the sonorities that were so 
familiar to the great musicians of late 19th and 20th century, and at the same time ensuring a 
higher tuning stability, even better than the best gut and nylon strings

The 4th string on sets 1B and 2B for Old Style Banjo is unwound. They are made up of a 
recently discovered bio-plastic – that we named Sugar – that has been loaded with metallic 
powders. Thanks to this technology, we were able to produce unwound strings with very bright 
sound, stable and with a smooth surface, that are not affected by the oxidation, that is 
typical of metal wound strings.

Ukulele String 4th Unwound Low G Tuning 71U.

Syntetic version of the Gut & Silk 900
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, a response and brightness typical of gut strings 
(certainly superior to plain nylon and in some respects closer to fluocarbon strings) while, on the other 
hand, basses had an exquisitely vocal quality, i.e. not so bright as, and with less sustain than modern 
wound on nylon strings, with a sound that was richer in fundamental frequencies.

Our Ambra 900 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 that times.

This set was conceived for one grade of tension only, and consists of gut-coloured Supernylgut® trebles, 
with a rectified surface exactly as it’s made on gut strings, adopting the representative mean diameters 
as indicated by Pujol in his method “Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra” of 1934. Basses have a silver-plated 
copper winding over special multifilament core, that we call ‘Rayon’, and are specifically balanced between 
metal and core in order to achieve the same texture of sound found in the original silk-wound strings.

These innovative bass strings use copper instead of stiff metals like steel or nickel, resulting in a richer 
acoustic performance due to the higher density of copper. Additionally, the strings feature a bioplastic 
monofilament core called ‘Sugar‘, which has excellent acoustic performance and is produced exclusively by Aquila 
on a global scale.

Revolutionize Your Sound with Our Groundbreaking Wound Bass Strings
These strings are truly innovative for at least two reasons. Firstly, they do not use metals like steel or nickel, 
that are stiff, but instead they use pure copper that is softer and has higher density and result in richer acoustic 
performance. In fact higher the density, better the sound. Secondly, these strings feature a bioplastic 
monofilament core called ‘Sugar‘, which is exclusively produced by Aquila on a global scale. Sugar has been 
proven to have superior acoustic performance compared to other plastic materials, as evidenced by laboratory 
measurements.

4-strings 18-21" / 46-53 cm scale

NOTE	Gauge mm	
A	2,20
D	1,82
G	1,44