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Ricci Carbon Instruments are manufactured manually by specialists in Austria and Germany (Bavaria) based on the latest high-tech processes in PrePreg technology. After molding, the components are assembled and finished with a UV stable clear coat. Individual colors or surfaces can be provided. Each instrument is fine-tuned at completion and control-played before delivery. The instruments have a bass bar, sound post and bridge, therefore can be adapted individually in the traditional way. The strings used and recommended by Ricci Carbon Instruments are of the highest quality available on the market – nevertheless these are always a matter of personal preference. The musician can therefore still modify these aspects according to his personal preferences and use; this is also valid for the bridge.
PrePreg Manufacturing Process of Ricci Carbon Instruments:
The PrePreg technology used is extremely expensive and requires an intensive fabrication effort similar to the traditional building of string instrument, but it is much better than the cheap, low-tech, “amateur” technology of wet in wet lamination: Always a constant and optimal resin ratio and millimeter precise layering is achieved.
For curing in the autoclave, high temperature (ca. 130 C°) and pressure (ca. 30 – 70 psi) are necessary.
Only this guarantees reproducible, absolute technical precision and therefore permanent highest sound quality as needed in string instruments.
This expensive and complex process is “state of the art” for the highly precise products of aviation and racing sports; therefore it is the only way to guarantee a permanent optimum sound for Ricci Carbon Instruments.
Ricci Carbon Instruments is dedicated to the highest complex demands of the sound of a string instrument and therefore not only uses the state of art PrePreg process, but also a complex differentiation of fiber direction and thicknesses plus a sophisticated tapering of belly, bottom and ribs.
This results – in cooperation with well-reputed soloists – in the unique sound.