Aquila strings for oud Super Nylgut

Aquila SuperNylgut strings are excellent oud strings from Italy.

Until the middle of the 20th century, ouds were set up with gut strings, a material that has been used for thousands of years and which combines excellent attack with brilliance and sonic purity - very different, in other words, from modern nylon strings. Aquila's objective was to manufacture a new synthetic product having the same acoustic properties as gut, but without its typical defects (high cost, limited duration and high instability under climatic variables). The Super Nylgut® brings together precisely these qualities: allowing on the one hand, to find the typical sounds of the 19th and 20th century; and guaranteeing, on the other hand, a tuning stability even higher than that of the best guts and nylon strings.

Our opinion: Aquila strings have an extremely pure and rather dull sound. The treble strings in Nylgut (synthetic gut) give it a unique sound grain and the bass strings offer a very strong depth and sound roundness. The sound volume is relatively limited, but this is not the goal of these strings. Voltage is normal, break-in time is about 10 days.