Roosebeck 5-Course Baroque Guitar String Set (10-String)

The Roosebeck 5-Course Baroque Guitar String Set is tailored to the unique scale length, tension, and paired-course layout of baroque guitars. Each course is carefully gauged for balanced response from bright, articulate trebles to warm, resonant basses. Rectified nylon provides excellent intonation and a slightly textured feel that grips the fingertip or quill, while the silver-plated wound bass strings deliver quick attack with a refined, musical decay—ideal for continuo, campanella passages, and the dance rhythms of the period repertoire.

Baroque guitars of the 17th and early 18th centuries were typically strung in five double courses and favored clear, projecting trebles with supportive basses for accompaniment and solo works by composers such as Corbetta, Sanz, de Visée, and Santiago de Murcia. This set captures that historical character with modern reliability, enabling performers and reenactors to access an authentic sound world while benefiting from contemporary string-making consistency.