[LUTE] Re: NG basses

[Mimmo]

'I'm not sure of this but Aquila D series copper wound basses may actually be 
manufactured by Savarez.  It is very common practice for string suppliers to 
just put their label on strings manufactured by a larger company.  I don't 
think Mimmo bothers to sit in his shop for endless hours and extrude and wind 
his own synthetic strings.'

 Hi to everyone,
I am not happy to answer on things that concerne Aquila company. 
However, just for  this time it is time to do this:

-aquila is not a shop but a factory of strings 
-I am both stringmaker and the owner of the company,  I like to work with the 
other workmans to produce gut and syntetics. Stringmakings in one of  the 
things that I like to do and I like to work with the other people ( my 
theacher, Arturo Granata,  was a stringmaker that spent some 20 years to 
Savarez/Babolat)
-we do gut strings ourshelf; it is not true that we are just reselers of gut 
strings made by other stringmakers
- I do the loaded strings myshelf without any help from others when I have 
spare time (!)
-we do the D types ourshelf; it is not true that we are reseller of strings 
made by other bigger companies
-I discovered Nylgut in the 1997 years after 1 year of  extrusion tests made 
with the help of another  company specialized in fishing line production
- we have an estrusor able to produce nylgut.  the machine have 5 holes and 5 
Kg /hour of production of nylgut strings. The extrusor  is of 9 mt lenght. We 
are ables to produce both nylon and carbon strings.  I do not like both these 
products so I am working to develope new sintetics 
- The  polished nylgut production is quite high: 15 km of nylgut strings per 
day (ukulele strings expecially; most for the big chineese factories. 500,000 
strings per year)
- the wound string production (5 spinning machines) is arround 1,000 strings 
per day
-  we have 4 uncenterless machines: the production of the rectifyed nylgut ( 
for lutes etc) is about of 1,000 strings per day.
Now I hope  that can clarify every further supposition

Of course, no all the wound and  reftifyed nylgut is for selling: most go for 
the stock and a step by step selling
Mimmo


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Andrico 
  To: Rob MacKillop ; Daniel Winheld 
  Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:06 PM
  Subject: [LUTE] Re: NG basses



  Rob=2C Daniel & All:
   
  I agree with Rob that these basses are a good substitute for those who like 
their basses to play in tune.  The edgy new sound goes away very quickly. 
   
   
  Best=2C
   
  Ron Andrico
  www.mignarda.com
   

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