AQUILA 88U TENOR UKULELE STRING SET – LOW G (wound)
Fitting a quality set of Premium Quality Ukulele Strings is still the easiest and cheapest way to improve your ukulele’s Tone and Play-ability and a set of Aquila RED SERIES strings, handmade in Italy by Aquila Corde Armoniche is a sure fire way to breath life into your ukulele.
- LOW G – GCEA Wound LOW G
- Aquila RED SERIES® Tenor Ukulele Strings AQ88U
- Our Price Includes Delivery with TRACKING to Anywhere in Australia
RED SERIES® sets provide superior performance over traditional strings. A more focused, rounded and balanced tone than White Nylgut or Super Nylgut strings with a softer feel under your finger tips too.
Aquila’s revolutionary new approach — unique to Aquila — changes the specific weight of the material, increasing it progressively to leave the gauge almost unchanged.
A unique feeling with a strong, balanced and consistent sound. You have never heard a sound like this before because up until now, it simply did not exist.
The old school of thought believed it necessary to increase the gauge of a string for it to produce a fuller, warmer sounding tone. The downside of this larger diameter is that it also increases internal dampening, making the string less bright, less responsive and more muffled – the thicker the string, the duller the sound.
Now, everything has changed with the introduction of Aquila’s RED SERIES strings.
The results are amazing – instruments sound brighter, more powerful and more responsive through the entire range of the fret board. The strings also intonate better, because thicker strings need to be fretted harder, pulling them further out of tune.
Aquila RED SERIES® strings provide superior performance over traditional strings for musicians who love bright sounds and powerful voicing across the full scale of the instrument.
FIFTY SHADES OF RED?
In the manufacturing process of RED SERIES strings, different percentages of metal powder are used to optimise each string’s performance within the set. Because of this, the colour varies slightly with each string in a set of Reds.
This is not a production problem. It is so each string produces the sound you expect from Aquila Reds!
MAIN FEATURES
The technical solution adopted was firstly to make the Nylgut elastic and then add red copper powder in order to increase the density to about twice that of standard white Nylgut. The improvement in touch and tone is impressive.
AQUILA 88U SPECIFICATIONS:
• Country of Origin: Italy
• Colour: Red-Brown
• Low G String: Wound for enhanced performance and balanced tone
• Country of Origin: Designed, engineered and made in Italy
• Surface: Textured to eliminate the squeak that sometime occurs with Nylgut strings
• Elasticity/Elongation: consistent with white Nylgut
• Performance: Better than the first unwound G version
• Stability: They do not break under tension providing rapid, stable tuning
• Intonation: Accurate past the 12th fret
• Tuning: Pressing the string firmly down on the frets does not cause the note to sharpen
• Diameter: It is not necessary to file the nut slot wider to accommodate RED SERIES® strings
• Density: About twice the density compared to standard white Nylgut
