Aquila 15U Ten Ukulele Nylgut Strings

The Aquila 15U belongs to Aquila's Nylgut series, a series designed to reproduce the promptness of attack and brilliance of timbre that characterize original gut strings. Aquila aimed to design a synthetic string that has the same acoustic properties of a gut, but without its typical limitations.

The Nylgut series allows the player to rediscover the sonorities familiar to the great 19th and 20th century ukulele masters, while guaranteeing a stability of tuning higher than that of the even the best gut and nylon strings. Until the mid-20th century, Ukuleles 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 luthiers, composers and performers alike.

A fundamental aim of our research has therefore been to make a synthetic product having the same acoustic properties as gut -- but without its typical defects - (high cost, limited duration and high instability under varying climatic).