NRI is a maker of bespoke strings for instruments, specialising in authentic stringing for use in music of the medieval, renaissance, and baroque and classical/romantic periods. Over 25 years ago, NRI started researching and making strings for early instruments. Instrument makers wanted authenticity in the stringing to match the authenticity in their woodwork. Our research into the history of stri
ng technology and string usage has progressed steadily since our ground-breaking paper that appeared in the 1974 issue of the Galpin Society Journal. The historical information has been very useful to some, but most use more modern stringing because the traditions of the early-music movement developed before the research was done. We have learned to make almost every type of string used in Western music before the middle of the 20th century, when a revolution in mechanisation and string design occurred. Our understanding of what gives a string musical quality, and our development of skills to produce that quality, has also progressed steadily since then. We have Strings for order via brochure, but also make any string required by anyone, within physical limits
