Gamut String Types & Options

Gamut String Types

  • Academie Strings (Beef Gut; Bovine Serosa) - designed for historical performance practice (a=415)

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

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

  • Dependable Coated Gut Violin Strings - Medium gauge, easily tuned to a=440 or a=415

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

  • 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

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

  • Gimped Gut - Mid-range and low strings 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

Gamut String Options