Please Note: selected shipping has no bearing on how long your order will take in the string workshop.
Gamut strings are hand-made to order — shipping timelines are calculated from when your order leaves the workshop, not when the order was placed. We will send a sales receipt with tracking # when your order leaves the shop.
International Orders: are subject to customs/VAT ("landed cost") fees at the receiving end. Gamut Music has no control over carrier- or government-imposed taxes or fees. See our Shipping & Returns Policy and Authorized Worldwide Dealers for additional details.
Sep 21st 2023
Gamut gut string gauges are approximate (≈) diameter. Meaning, that while a ≈0.60mm string is polished in the workshop to a diameter of 0.60mm, changes in ambient humidity, temperature, shipping, and…
Sep 5th 2023
The question of soaking gut strings in oil comes up occasionally, with strong opinions on both sides, so we decided to ask a neutral third party — ChatGPT:"It's generally not recommended to soak gut s…
Aug 11th 2023
The string shop constantly improves processes and workflow to make strings better and more efficient. One improvement we are finally putting into production is replacing knots with ball ends.One of th…
Aug 2nd 2023
I had heard of this book project on and off going back to at least 2013 and came upon the finished work recently:Masterpieces of German Instrument Making, Vol. 8: String Production in Markneukirchen a…
Published by Dan Larson
Jul 25th 2023
Music enthusiasts and historians around the world commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Byrd, one of the most influential composers of the Renaissance era. Born around 1540, Byrd was an English…
Jun 22nd 2023
Silk is yet another option for music strings. There are references to using silk in some early Arabic literature about 'ouds, but not much in the Western tradition until the days of the British Raj. G…
Published by Dan Larson
May 26th 2023
We will be in attendance at the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition at the Courtyard Marriott Boston Downtown. Make sure to stop by the Gamut Music booth to say "hello" to Jake and Garth,…
Apr 25th 2023
Happy Spring From the Gamut Music Workshop— Greetings from Northern Minnesota. This winter has been one for the record books. With so much snow, and ice, and rain, and wind, and cold, there…
Apr 10th 2023
In an effort to provide elucidation on the different Gamut sheep and beef gut string options for our customers, please be aware:Academie Strings All Gamut Academie strings (pure gut and gut/metal-wou…
Mar 9th 2023
UPDATE (04/2023) – European Union* Customers: We have been informed by FedEx that individual customers DO NOT need to provide an Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number. I…
Feb 17th 2023
Gamut Music is a small early music workshop in Duluth, Minnesota, specializing in Historically Informed Practice and modern performance practice natural gut and gut/wound music instrument strings.We h…
Feb 8th 2023
Greetings From the Gamut Music Workshop—It has been a dynamic winter here in northern Minnesota, but with the addition of a newly hired string polisher, the shop is running smoothly and is in the…
