Essays
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Old string collection

Summary This page gathers the photographic documentation of the old string collection held by Aquila Corde Armoniche: thirty-eight images of surviving string fragments and original packages. The artefacts are the material reference on which philological research into historical musical strings...

Summary

This page gathers the photographic documentation of the old string collection held by Aquila Corde Armoniche: thirty-eight images of surviving string fragments and original packages. The artefacts are the material reference on which philological research into historical musical strings rests, since colour, apparent gauge, twist pattern and state of preservation can be observed directly in the photographs. The gallery carries no descriptive apparatus: each thumbnail opens the full-resolution image of the artefact.

Key takeaways

  • The gallery documents thirty-eight artefacts from the company collection: string fragments and original packages.
  • Each thumbnail links to the full-resolution photograph, useful for examining twist, colour and state of preservation.
  • The surviving artefacts are the direct term of comparison between historical and present-day stringmaking.
  • The page has no textual apparatus: the documentation rests entirely on the images.

Gallery of the artefacts

Photographic gallery of the Aquila Corde Armoniche collection of antique strings. The thumbnails open the original full-resolution photographs.

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