About me      

                                               


Mimmo Peruffo was born at Arborea, in Sardinia isle. Pupil of the stringmaker Arturo Granata of Melzo and researcher  in Caldogno, 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.

with Arturo Granata, my maestro stringmaker

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Articols

 

 -‘The mystery of gut bass strings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the role of loaded-weighted gut’, Recercare, V 1993.

 

-‘Italian violin strings in the eightteenth and nineteenth centuries: typologies, manufacturing techniques and principles of stringing’, Recercare IX, 1997.

 

-‘Nicolò Paganini and gut strings: the history of a happy find’, Recercare XII, 2000.

 

-‘Die Darmsaiten vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert Mit einem Anhang von Dieter Krickeberg: Archivalische Beobachtungen zur Herstellung von Darmsaiten im alten Nürnberg’ in Der Schöne Klang, Germanische National Museum of Nürnberg, 1996.

 

-‘Technical aspect in the manufacture of the strings for bowed instruments in the age of enlightenment’, in Domenico Montagnana, lauter in venetia’, Lendinara, 1997.

 

- ‘Le quattro età del budello’, in ‘Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa, ed. Skira, Milano, 1996.

 

-‘Le corde di budello: la manifattura delle corde nel Rinascimento e nel barocco’, in Orfeo, Giugno 1997.

 

-‘Le corde per chitarra, tra il diciannovesimo secolo e l’avvento del nylon’, in La Chitarra di Liuteria, Ed l’Officina del libro, Sondrio, 2001.

 

-‘The mystery of gut bass strings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the role of loaded-weighted gut’, in  Lute society of America Quarterly, Volume XXIX, N°2,  pp 5-14, May 1994. Lexington, Virginia.

 

-‘Nicolò Paganini and gut strings: the history of a happy find’, Newsletter,  Volume 1, Number 2, Bruxelles, October 2003.

 

-‘Nuove ipotesi sulla fattura delle corde basse di liuto nell’epoca Barocca’, Il Fronimo, n°74, Gennaio 1991 pp 29-35.

 

- ‘Le corde per chitarra tra il Settecento e l’avvento del nylon (parte prima)’ Il Fronimo, n°117, Gennaio 2002, pp 24-36.

 

- ‘Le corde per chitarra tra il Settecento e l’avvento del nylon (parte prima)’ Il Fronimo, n°117, Gennaio 2002, pp 24-36.

 

- ‘Le corde per chitarra tra il Settecento e l’avvento del nylon (parte seconda)’ Il Fronimo, n°118, Aprile 2002, pp 50-61.

 

- ‘Le corde per chitarra tra il Settecento e l’avvento del nylon (parte terza)’ Il Fronimo, n°119, Luglio 2002, pp 11-24.

 

- ‘Le corde per chitarra tra il Settecento e l’avvento del nylon (parte quarta)’ Il Fronimo, n°120, Ottobre 2002, pp 35-46.

 

-‘Il mistero delle corde gravi del liuto: Nuove ipotesi di lavoro (prima parte), Bollettino della Società Italiana del Liuto, N°2, Ottobre 1991 pp 8-13

 

-‘Il mistero delle corde gravi del liuto: Nuove ipotesi di lavoro (seconda parte), Bollettino della Società Italiana del Liuto, N°3, Gennaio 1992, pp 11-15.

 

-‘Le corde di budello: istruzioni per l’uso’ (prima parte), Bollettino della Società Italiana del Liuto, N°4, Ottobre 1994, pp 17-22.

 

-‘Le corde di budello: istruzioni per l’uso’ (seconda parte), Bollettino della Società Italiana del Liuto, Anno V, N°I, vol XV, Gennaio 1995, pp 5-11.

 

-‘Il Chitarrone e le corde di metallo’, Bollettino della Società Italiana del Liuto, Anno VII, N°2-4, vol 24, Febbraio 1999, pp 8-15.

 

-‘Ist die Tradition der Darmsaiten-Herstellung Italiens wiederbelebt?’ in Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt, Heft 10/1996, pp36-38.

  

-‘On Venice catlins, lyons, Pistoy basses and loaded weighted bass gut strings’

in FOMRHI Quarterly N° 76,  comm.1288, July 1994.

 

-‘More on gut strings’, in FOMRHI Quarterly N° 82, comm. 1417, January 1996.

 

-‘More on gut strings’, in FOMRHI Quarterly N° 84, comm. 1466, July 1996.

 

-‘More on Ramelli, loaded gut strings and gansars’, in FOMRHI Quarterly N° 79, comm. 1351, April 1995. 

 

-‘German baroque lutes and oversun strings’, in FOMRHI Quarterly N°79 , comm. 1350, April  1995.

 

-‘New hypothesis on the construction of bass strings for lutes and other gut strung instruments’, in FOMRHI Quarterly N° 62,  comm.1021, January 1991.

 

-'Gut strings: further to Comm. 1683’, in FOMRHI Quarterly N° 107-108,  comm.1804, April-July 2002.

-'Gut top strings for lutes, by Mimmo Peruffo of Aquila Corde', in The Lute Society Magazine' number 79, October 2006, pp 14-15.uarterlyQuarterl

 

 

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 Researches:

Investigation on all the generic 'old' gut & wound gut strings presents on  bowed and plucked instruments of  the European musical museums.

Our goal is to complete our database of  all the 'old' gut strings that are on these instruments. A copia of our relation will be give to each museum

Our working is still in progression; at the present we have made a complete check to the follower museums:

-Ferdinandeum Museum di Innsbruck

-Musee Royal Instrumental di Bruxelles

-Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali di Roma

-Germanische National Museum di Norimberga

-Kunsthistorisches Museun di Vienna

-Ashmolean Museum di Oxford

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