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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.

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.