Description

Aquila 17U Tenor Ukulele 6 string Set, Key of C, 6 Nylgut Strings

Key of C, Regular Tuning: Aa E Cc g

String Length of 76cms

Please Note; These strings are colour coded on their ends to help you decipher which string is which;

G – 1st String – White

C – 2nd and 3rd Strings – Green

E – 4th String – Blue

A – 6th and 5th Strings – Red

A brief introduction to Aquila

Until the mid-20th-century Ukuleles were mounted exclusively in gut, a material that had been used for thousands 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 luthiers, composers and performers alike.

A fundamental aim of Aquila’s 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). The New Nylgut has precisely these qualities: allowing one, on the one hand, to rediscover the sonorities familiar to the great 19th and 20th century Uke masters; and guaranteeing, on the other, a stability of tuning higher even than that of the best gut and nylon strings.