A Guide to Choosing the Right Violin Strings
These days, string players face a multitude of choices when it comes to picking violin strings. Here's how to eliminate the guesswork and find the perfect strings for your instrument.
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Pirastro Expands Its Violin String Line With the Perpetual Cadenza
Perhaps to satisfy players whose instruments require a subtler hand, Pirastro has released a new Perpetual Cadenza string line for violin.
Family Ties: How Pirastro’s Evah Pirazzi Strings Renewed the Family Business
By Patrick Sullivan | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine They stormed onto the stage 20 years ago, and today they still command name recogniti... Read More...
Restringing Your Instrument: A Refresher Course & Tips from the Pros
By Emily Wright The basic order of operations for installing a string is simple enough. Secure one end through the tailpiece, thread the other end through t... Read More...
Warchal Delivers Eco-Conscious Set of Recycled Strings with Phoenix Line
By Stephanie Powell In an effort to save and reuse raw materials, like the silver that’s often found in violin strings, Warchal has launched Phoenix, a new ... Read More...
Thomastik-Infeld Celebrates a Century of Innovation in the Stringed-Instrument Industry
By Greg Cahill Thomastik-Infeld is marking its 100th anniversary as an industry leader in the manufacture of instrument strings. But its story really began ... Read More...
This Music May Put You to Sleep—and That’s the Point
It's usually a composer's worst nightmare—that their music will lull audiences to sleep.
But not Max Richter. The British composer created an entire eight-ho... Read More...
D’Addario Factory Tour: a Mariachi Violinist Goes Straight to the Source
By Cristina Schreil
Navigating through foggy safety goggles, I follow a mariachi band onto a Long Island factory floor. I confront a cacophony: countless machi... Read More...
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