Aquila Corde Armoniche

Die Firma Aquila Corde Armoniche Srl in Cardogno bei Vicenza (Italien) produziert viele verschiedene Typen von Saiten.
Spieler von historischen Musikinstrumenten kennen und schätzen die Saiten besonders, die in einer Auswahl von Darmsaiten bis Nylgut verwendet werden.

Mimmo Peruffo, der Gründer von Aquila Corde Armoniche, ist eine bekannte Persönlichkeit im Bereich historischer Saiten und ist besonders für seine Forschung und Arbeit bei der Entwicklung hochwertiger Saiten für historische und moderne Musikinstrumente bekannt. Sein Unternehmen, Aquila Corde Armoniche, ist weltweit bekannt für die Herstellung von Darmsaiten und synthetischen Saiten für eine Vielzahl von Instrumenten, darunter Lauten, Gitarren und Harfen, sowie für seine Innovationen bei Materialen und bei der Konstruktion der Saiten.

Aquila Corde Armoniche Srl, located in Cardogno near Vicenza, Italy, produces many different types of strings.
Players of historical musical instruments are familiar with and appreciate the strings, which are made from a selection of gut strings to Nylgut.

Mimmo Peruffo, the founder of Aquila Corde Armoniche, is a well-known figure in the field of historical strings and is particularly noted for his research and work in developing high-quality strings for historical and modern musical instruments. His company, Aquila Corde Armoniche, is renowned worldwide for producing gut and synthetic strings for a variety of instruments, including lutes, guitars, and harps, as well as for its innovations in string materials and construction.

Who is Mimmo Peruffo?

Mimmo was born at Arborea, in Sardinia isle. Chemical, pupil of the stringmaker Arturo Granata of Melzo (Milan) and researcher in Caldogno, a village near Vicenza (where he founded the Aquila Corde Armoniche S.a.s) devotes himself, since the 1983 year, to the study and re-creation of gut strings in use in the Renaissance, Baroque and Classic eras. In the field of research on modern materials, in 1997 he discovered and brought onto the market Nylgut, a true “synthetic gut” to substitute for nylon on historical plucked instruments and on classical guitar, ukulele, ouds, charangos etc. His works have appeared in ‘Recercare’, ‘F.O.M.R.H.I quarterly’, ‘The Italian Lute Society Bulletin’, ‘Orfeo’, ‘The Lute Society of America Bulletin’, ‘Quattrocentoquindici’, ‘Il Fronimo’, in the volume ‘Gendai Guitar’, ‘Das Musikinstrument’ etc. He took care of the gut string- section in the musical instruments catalogue of the GNM in Nürnberg and the volume on the Bergamo 1998 exhibition “Evaristo Baschenis and still life painting in Europe”. He was the first to carry out an accurate research on the gut strings pieces from the first half of the 18th century in the Museo Stradivariano in Cremona and , in April 2000, the gauging of the original violin gut strings which belonged to Nicolò Paganini. He has been reading papers in the conservatories and universities in Vienna, Dresden, Milan, Venice, London, Brussells, Florence, Brescia, The Hague, Gijon, etc. When he have spare time (!) he plays lute, guitar and ukulele.