Aquila 77C Single 2nd string - Gut & Silk 800 single B gut string

single Gut 2nd string as used in Guitar setup between 1790 and 1870
Up to the middle of the 20th century, the only available strings for guitar were plain gut for Trebles and wound on silk core for Basses. Their acoustical performance was quite different from that of modern synthetic strings. The salient characteristics were a marked tonal presence and brightness, typical of gut strings (certainly superior to plain nylon and in some respects closer to fluocarbon strings) while silver-plated copper wound basses, on the other hand, possessed an exquisitely vocal quality, i.e. more centered on the fundamental harmonics, not as bright and with less sustain, as compared to modern nylon core wound strings.
these are made with only one degree of tension, brings back to life the exact historical settings, typical of the XIX century, as evidenced by our thorough research.