Gut Strings String King gut strings

String King offers gut strings for historical instruments from 7 manufacturers: Aquila, Baroco, Gamut, Toro, La Folia, Pure Corde and Pirastro. You can choose between these labels and pick single strings, whole sets or mix strings according to your personal preferences. Our own experience shows that combining strings from different manufactures works very well on the instrument. We also advocate a baroque stringing principle of equal tension for all the strings on the instrument.
We provide information from manufacturers (Aquila and Gamut) with their suggestions and stringing examples (those common today and historically correct). Our own experience shows that even sets marked as “heavy” are relatively light. If you want to get deeper into the subject read the articles under About baroque stringing. We can always assist you with advice and help in choosing a historical set of strings appropriate for different styles and periods or in finding a compromise between your habits and the historical stringing evidence. It may often take some time to find the best strings for just you and your instrument. The only way is to try different solutions and to experiment. If you know what strings you are looking for, you can just pick them up and put them in your basket.

:: String calculator ::


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Violin







For stringing suggestions from Aquila click here.
For stringing suggestions from Gamut click here.
For stringing suggestions from Toro click here.
For stringing suggestions from Pure Corde click here.


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d G
C



Viola







For stringing suggestions from Aquila click here.
For stringing suggestions from Gamut click here.
For stringing suggestions from Toro click here.
For stringing suggestions from Pure Corde click here.


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d G
C



Cello







For stringing suggestions from Aquila click here.
For stringing suggestions from Gamut click here.
For stringing suggestions from Toro click here.
For stringing suggestions from Pure Corde click here.


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d a
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c


Pardessus







For stringing suggestions from Aquila click here.
For stringing suggestions from Toro click here.


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Treble viol







For stringing suggestions from Aquila click here.
For stringing suggestions from Gamut click here.
For stringing suggestions from Toro click here.
For stringing suggestions from Pure Corde click here.


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d a
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C
G

Tenor viol







For stringing suggestions from Aquila click here.
For stringing suggestions from Gamut click here.
For stringing suggestions from Toro click here.
For stringing suggestions from Pure Corde click here.


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Bass viol







For stringing suggestions from Aquila click here.
For stringing suggestions from Gamut click here.
For stringing suggestions from Toro click here.
For stringing suggestions from Pure Corde click here.


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Viola d'amore







For stringing suggestions click here.


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Viola pomposa / vlc da spalla







For stringing suggestions click here.


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Double bass







We don’t have many bass strings in stock but we can get them for you so please, write to info@stringking.net
For stringing suggestions from Aquila click here.
For stringing suggestions from Gamut click here.


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E D




Violone in D







We don’t have many bass strings in stock but we can get them for you so please, write to info@stringking.net
For stringing suggestions click here.


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Violone in G







We don’t have many bass strings in stock but we can get them for you so please, write to info@stringking.net
For stringing suggestions click here.


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lute/guitar/harp/frets







For stringing suggestions click here.


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Guitar







For stringing suggestions click here.


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For protection of your gut strings you can buy our String Oil Pads.