A unique feeling and a strong, consistent sound. Until now, it was necessary to increase 
the gauge of a string for it to produce a lower-pitched note. But increasing the string’s 
diameter also increases internal dampening. That makes the string less bright, less 
responsive and more muffled; the thicker the string, the duller the sound. Our revolutionary 
new approach — unique to us — changes the specific weight of the material, increasing it 
progressively to leave the gauge almost unchanged.

The result is amazing: instruments sound brighter, more powerful and more responsive through 
the entire range of the fret board. The strings also maintain their intonation better, because 
thicker strings need to be fretted harder, pulling them further out of tune.

RED SERIES sets provide superior performance over traditional strings for musicians who love 
bright sounds and powerful performance across the full scale of the instrument.

You never heard a sound like this before, simply because before it did not exist.

Until mid-20th century, Banjos used exclusively gut strings, a material that had been 
used for thousand of years and that combines excellent promptness of attack with brilliance 
of timbre – very different, in other words, from modern nylon strings. And until recently, 
the typical sound quality of gut has been a constant point of reference for lute-makers, 
composers and performers alike. A fundamental aim of our research has therefore been to make 
a new synthetic product having the same acoustic properties as gut – but without its typical 
defects (high cost, limited duration and high instability under varying climatic conditions). 
Nylgut® has precisely these qualities, allowing the rediscovery of the sonorities that were so 
familiar to the great musicians of late 19th and 20th century, and at the same time ensuring a 
higher tuning stability, even better than the best gut and nylon strings

The 4th string on sets 1B and 2B for Old Style Banjo is unwound. They are made up of a 
recently discovered bio-plastic – that we named Sugar – that has been loaded with metallic 
powders. Thanks to this technology, we were able to produce unwound strings with very bright 
sound, stable and with a smooth surface, that are not affected by the oxidation, that is 
typical of metal wound strings.

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Our sets are made using innovative materials, discovered and perfected in our laboratory 
after a long period of research and after being thoroughly tested, thus giving rise to a 
new synthetic product of high technology.