Gamut String Types & Options

Gamut Product Lines

• Academie Strings - Beef serosa strings designed for historical performance practice (a=415)

• Academie Gold Sheep Gut Strings - Sheep serosa strings designed for historical performance practice (a=415)

• Tricolore Strings - Violin and viola gut strings for modern performance practice (a=440)

• Dependable - Coated gut violin strings in Medium gauge, easily tuned to a=440 or a=415

• Red Diamond Bass Strings - Gut double bass strings for modern performance (a=440)

Gamut String Options

• 3-D Printed Ball Ends - A stopper to secure the string at the tailpiece

• Varnish - Protective varnish that stretches with the gut

• Wound Strings: Underlayer vs. No Underlayer - A silk buffer between the gut core and the wire winding

Gamut String Types

• Sheep Gut - Treble gut for high and mid-range strings of most small instruments

• Treble Gut - Another variety of treble gut made from cattle which has a higher tensile strength than does sheep gut

• Lyon Gut - Top strings on larger instruments like cellos and basses, mid-range and low strings on other instruments

• Pistoy Gut - Mid-range and low strings on most instruments

• Gimped Gut - Mid-range and low strings on most instruments

• Gut/Metal-Wound Strings - Low strings with copper, silver, copper/silver, or silverplate on most instruments

• Diapason Gut - Long lengths of gut for archlutes, theorbos, lautenwercks, etc.

• Fret Gut - Made of beef gut for tying frets onto historical instruments, such as lutes and viols

• Tail Gut - Made of beef gut used to attach the tailpiece onto the instruments of the violin family and some viols

• Double-Length Strings - Two usable string lengths for the Violin e-1 and a-2, Viola a-1, and Treble Viol d-1 and a-2

• Nylon Strings - DuPont Tynex® 612 nylon strings perfectly rectified with a high polish

• Custom Gauged Strings - String gauges that extend beyond our standard Light to Heavy+ offerings