Since the beginning of time and throughout the world, the material almost universally chosen for the construction of musical strings has been gut.

The origins of this extraordinary technology are unknown but one fact is still true today: despite the contemporary high-tech materials available, gut strings,artisanally made in the age-old tradition, remain unequalled.

It is not surprising that it was in Italy, home of the greatest violin-making tradition, that the art of string making was developed and perfected through daily contact with musicians and luthiers.

The village hosting our workshop, nestled in the heart of the Abruzzi mountains, heir to a long tradition dating from the Middle Ages, prides itself for having reclaimed its historical role as the principal center of gut strings production.

After years of contact with some of the greatest international musicians, and together with their collaboration, Baroco have developed a large selection of gut strings.

By reviving a centuries-old tradition that had been gradually lost, they are today able to offer a range of strings of the highest quality adapted to all styles of musical playing: baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary.  

While Baroco has continued making strings of cow gut, it has developed with great success a line of strings made from sheep gut.

Less dense than cow gut, sheep gut lends itself particularly well to the making of all types of strings for musical instruments.

In solid gut, wound or non-wound, polished or unpolished, available in a wide range of twists and gauges (40 to 420), Baroco gut strings for the violin and viol families are produced in accordance with the highest standards.

Unequaled timbre, precise pitch, and quick response are factors that contribute to making Baroco strings irreplaceable allies to your musical life.