On Saturday, June 11, we will be shooting video of Dr. Rickert of Don Rickert Design installing 18th Century type gut strings (copper wound g string and unwound pure gut d', a' and e' strings) on a short bodied (but 4/4 playable scale) pochette. The principles apply to the installation of gut strings on any fiddle. The demonstration will include essential modification to the tailpiece, proper grooving of the nut and the right way to wind pure gut strings on the tuning pegs.
If you want to learn to do it right so the strings do not slip on the pegs or break in the peg box or at the nut and tailpiece, you MUST watch this video. As far as keeping the old style strings in tune, especially during the summer months...good luck with that! A reasonable goal is to be able to play at least as much time as you spend tuning.
We will post the link when the video is on YouTube.
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