The Aquila 82C Ambra 800 is a normal tension set for early romantic guitars of the first half of the nineteenth century, the instruments of Sor, Giuliani, and Aguado, and for modern replicas of them. New Nylgut trebles reproduce the gut strings those guitars were built for, and the Ambra 800 basses, wound on a multifilament Nylgut core, are gauged for the small bodies, short scales, and light bracing of the period. The set gives a light, clear, quick-speaking voice with the warmth of gut and none of its tuning problems.
Aquila is a family-run string maker in Vicenza, Italy, best known for inventing Nylgut, a synthetic material that reproduces the density, feel, and sound of real gut strings without gut's cost, fragility, or sensitivity to humidity. For guitars from around 1900 see the Ambra 900; for a modern guitar, the Ambra 2000.
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