Product Overview
‘Historical’ set: this is the exact reconstruction of the set-up described by S.S. Stewart in his “Observations on the Banjo and Banjo Playing” published in 1892, and it consists of gut strings with a fourth wound string on real silk core.
As an alternative, we offer the HS Set which is its synthetic version composed of Nylgut with a fourth silver-plated copper wound string on a synthetic silk core.
This Historical Set is made with real gut strings and a silver-plated copper 4th wound string on a real white silk core.
String diameters, converted to mm, are as follows:
D: .48 mm
B: .58 mm
G: .73 mm
C: .62 mm W (silver-plated copper wound on silk)
G: .48 mm
Suggested reference pitch: 435 Hz (frequency adopted at the Congress of Vienna in 1885; in 1939, with the Congress of London, it was raised to 440 Hz).
