Westwood Guitar Company - Ukulele Strings and Gut strings

Specialist Strings
Aquila - Worth - Hi-Lo - Orcas

Aquila Gut Strings
Ukulele - Classical Guitar

Aquila Genuine Gut Strings
For centuries, all natural gut strings were the only choice available to musicians. With modern production capabilities and the advent of nylon/plastic, came a longer lasting, more consistent string that was also more impervious to climate and humidity changes; HOWEVER, as it is with many modern "improvements" something was lost. The feel and action of true gut strings can't be matched. And to some, the authentic, traditional tone produced by gut strings can't be replaced either. Made from multiple strands of real animal (not cat) intestines, gut strings are the result of a slow, painstaking process that requires a relentless attention to detail. Aquila pursues the ways of Italy's past to bring you the finest gut strings available today. These strings also make an excellent choice for your vintage instruments.

Nylgut
is a new synthetic product with the same acoustic properties as gut - but without its typical defects - high cost, limited duration and high instability under varying climatic conditions. With the sound of the great 19th and 20th century Uke masters a stability of tuning higher than that of the best gut and nylon strings. Made In Italy

Aquila Wound Strings
First quality wound strings with vernished copper wire, manufactured according to our best experience. The innovative idea was to employ a Nylgut® multifilament core -very stable to the moisture changing- and to partly limit the production of the very high overtones giving the metallic edge that is generally present in the strings of this type and never welcome by early music lovers. The thinner strings, the ones more subject to wear-and-tear, are protected by a light superficial vernish which also grants a longer playing life.

Aquila Ukulele Strings
	SOPRANO Ukulele Regular tuning Key of C, GCEA all Nylgut strings) $13.95 AUD	TENOR Ukulele High D Tuning DGBE (1 wound string) $14.95 AUD
	SOPRANO Ukulele Low-G tuning Key of C, GCEA (all Nylgut strings) $14.95 AUD	TENOR 6 string Ukulele Key of C, GCEA1 wound string $17.95 AUD
	SOPRANO Ukulele Genuine Gut Strings Regular tuning Key of C, GCEA $33.95 AUD	TENOR 8 strings Ukulele Key of C, GCEA1 wound string $19.95 AUD
	CONCERT Ukulele Regular tuning Key of C, GCEA (all Nylgut strings) $13.95 AUD	BARITONE 4 string ukulele GCEA Tuning (all Nylgut® strings) $14.95 AUD
	CONCERT Ukulele Low-G tuning Key of C, GCEA (one wound string) $14.95 AUD	BARITONE 4 string ukulele DGBE Tuning, 2 wound strings, key of G $15.95 AUD
	TENOR Ukulele Regular tuning Key of C, GCEA (all Nylgut strings) $13.95 AUD	BARITONE 6 string ukulele (2 wound strings) DGBE $22.95 AUD
	TENOR Ukulele Regular tuning Key of C, GCEA (One wound string) $13.95 AUD	BARITONE 8 string ukulele (2 wound strings) DGBE $27.95 AUD
	TENOR Ukulele Low G tuning Key of C, GCEA (One wound string) $13.95 AUD	BANJO UKULELE, Key of "C" (all Nylgut® strings) GCEA $15.95 AUD

Aquila Gut Strings for Classical Guitar

Until the mid-20th century the top three strings of the guitar were mounted exclusively in gut, 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). Nylgut® has precisely these qualities: allowing one, on the one hand, to rediscover the sonorities familiar to the great 19th and 20th century masters; and guaranteeing, on the other, a stability of tuning higher even than that of
the best gut and nylon strings.

Aquila Gut Strings for Classical Guitar - Perla

The first three strings are made of perfectly rounded, smooth, gauged Nylon monofilament that also boasts excellent acoustic and mechanical properties. The basses, overspun with silver-plated copper, consist of a core of Nylgut® multifilament that ensures not only a high resistance to tensile stress but also a low absorption of both atmospheric humidity and sweat. This makes for rapid and stable intonation, as well as greater durability. Suitable for the highest quality guitars. Made In Italy

Perla Normal Tension $19.95 AUD
Perla Superior Tension $19.95 AUD

Aquila Gut Strings for Classical Guitar - Alabastro

The first three strings use monofilaments of rounded, polished Nylgut®. Its features include promptness of attack, acoustic projection, excellent timbre and a truly remarkable stability of intonation and evenness of tone with the overspun basses.
The basses have a core of Nylgut® multifilament overspun with silver-plated copper that ensures not only a high resistance to tensile stress but also a low absorption of both atmospheric humidity and sweat. This makes for rapid and stable intonation, as well as greater durability. Made In Italy

Alabastro Normal Tension $24.95 AUD
Alabastro Superior Tension $24.95 AUD

Aquila Gut Strings for Classical Guitar - Alchemia

Set with two degrees of tension. The first three strings use monofilaments of rounded, polished Nylgut® "synthetic gut". Its features include promptness of attack, acoustic projection, excellent timbre and a truly remarkable stability of intonation, not to mention an admirable evenness of tone with the overspun basses. The basses have a multifilament core in a material of new conception (Nylgut® multifilament), specially wound with pure silver, that boasts high resistance to tensile stress and stability under varying climatic conditions. Using pure silver ensures the highest possible response in terms of timbre and volume, lower interference from finger noise and durability above the norm. The overspun strings have also been designed according to the principle - again absolutely new - of progressively increasing the dynamic performance of the bass register to compensate for the human ear's natural tendency to perceive lower frequencies less audibly.

Alchemia Normal Tension $47.95 AUD
Alchemia Superior Tension $47.95 AUD

Other Ukulele Strings

Orcas Ukulele Strings

ORCAS ukulele strings are made of premium fluoro-carbon material. Orcas strings offer longer life and stable tuning.

Fluoro-carbon material is ultra-violet resistance, stable, and does not change with the humidity. Traditional nylon ukulele strings will absorb the humidity and changes with the weather, and as a result, de-tune the instrument.

Orcas strings are very warm sounding. The tone is rich, clear, and balance string to string volume.

Worth Ukulele Strings

The outstanding benefits of using Worth fluoro-carbon strings include:

Elasticity - When setting new strings, these fluoro-carbon strings will distend only for one or two days.. No future relaxing of the strings elesticity will occur which makes the string go flat.
Balance - Choosing strings with same tension of nylon ones, Worth strings can be very thin and yet have good balance. Worth Strings are taylored for the balance you prefer.
Volume - The very thin Fluoro-carbon string produce excellant volume.
Tone - Worth strings have good, resounding, high, dry, sweet sound.
Clarity - Unchangeable in changing weather conditions. These strings have the same voice, regardless of the instrument body type.

Hilo Hawaiian Ukulele Strings

Hilo strings are made from a special type of black nylon called Tynex. Hilo strings are more resistant to moisture absorption than other types of nylon. Hilo Tynex strings are custom ground to close tolerances helping to insure Hilo strings will play in tune, stay in tune, and have a long playing life.

Available sets include;
Standard Soprano, Standard Soprano - High tension, Standard Soprano - Low G, Concert Concert - Low G, Tenor, Baritone