Aquila 55C Amber 900 Cl. Guitar Set

Description

<h1 style="text-align: justify;">55C is a historical guitar string set from Aquila Corde Armoniche's Ambra 900 series. The set consists of rectified Super Nylgut trebles with representative diameters inspired by Pujol's high-pitch strings, and basses wound with silver-plated copper on a special red multifilament called Rayon.</h1><h2>Overview of Aquila Corde Armoniche's Ambra 900 Series for Historical Guitar</h2><p style="text-align: justify;">Until the mid-20th century, guitar strings consisted exclusively of gut trebles, while basses were silk-wound strings. The acoustic performance of such a setup was very different from that of modern sets. It was characterized by a distinct tonal presence, attack, and brilliance typical of the higher-pitched gut strings (certainly superior to nylon and in some ways more similar to PVDF or carbon), while the basses, conversely, had an exquisitely vocal nature, meaning a less brilliant and persistent sound than current nylon-wound basses, focused more on the fundamental. The Ambra 900 set was created following this historical observation and was specifically designed to best recreate, using the most modern synthetic materials, the sound of the original gut and silk-wound strings. The set is available in a single tension grade and consists of gut-yellow Supernylgut® trebles with a rectified surface, just like gut strings, adopting the average representative diameters indicated by Pujol in his 1934 "Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra". For the basses, which are wound with silver-plated copper on a core of a special red multifilament called 'Rayon', a balance between metal and core was sought to best recreate the typical sound of the silk-wound strings of that era.</p><h2>Specifications of the 55C Ambra 900 for Historical Guitar by Aquila Corde Armoniche</h2><p><strong>Diameters</strong>: E 1.15 - A 0.97 - D 0.79 - G 1.00 - B 0.83 - E 0.66</p>