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Pirastro

Violino Violino is a lower tension string that is soft to the touch and produces a warm tone. It is immediately playable and not sensitive to temperature or humidity. Ideal for students and professionals.
Available in fractional sizes.
Tonica Tonica strings offer great dependability, powerful volume and lively sound with a high degree of modulation. Very clear and balanced, they have rich overtones without metallic harshness. Varying gauges.
Available in fractional sizes.
Piranito Piranito are an excellent steel string with a brilliant sound. Easy to play and ideal for students.
Available in fractional sizes.
Evah Pirazzi The very popular Evah Pirazzi are brilliant and dynamic, offering solid warm tones. Outstanding quick response even in the delicate pianissimo range. Evah Pirazzi are resistant to changes in temperature and humidity providing enormous pitch stability.
Available in fractional sizes.
Eudoxa Eudoxa are metal wound gut strings with rich warm sounds and high degrees of modulation. Quickly tuned and offering a bright, powerful sound with easy response.
Various gauges available.
Obligato Obligato strings have a warm sound with brilliant, clear and powerful tones. They demonstrate easy responses in all dynamic sections and have excellent uniformity across all strings.
Available in fractional sizes.
Chorda Chorda is a multifibre uncovered gut string. Authentic strings for baroque performance.
Passione The combination of modern synthetic and traditional gut technology have brought about the creation of Passione strings. The core sound is full, round and warm with great stability and projection. Faster play in time than traditional gut strings.
Synoxa Synoxa are a clear and bright sounding synthetic core string. Unaffected by changes in humidity and temperature.
Available in fractional sizes.
Chromcor Chromcor steel strings have a bright sound and large tonal volume with easy response and immediate tuning.
Available in fractional sizes.
Wondertone Solo The Wondertone Solo are constructed using the same special core material as Evah Pirazzi, Obligato and Violino. Possessing a brilliant soloistic tone.
Universal E The Universal E has been specifically designed to suit the entire Pirastro range. Made of coated carbon steel core material with a high tensile strength, the Universal is a non-whistling E with a brilliant clear sound.
Oliv Oliv is the premium gut core violin string with a full range of warm to brilliant tones and ample volume. Relatively fast response and available in various gauges.
gold Gold E strings are popular for their brilliant tone. Designed for the orchestral musician and constructed of gold plated steel.
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D'Addario

Zyex Zyex strings have a synthetic core and are extremely stable under varying climatic conditions. Fast settling, warm and powerful in tone.
Helicore The Helicore are a multi-strand twisted steel core string with a warmth usually associated with synthetic strings. Clear sounding with excellent pitch stability and longevity. A popular choice on electric instruments.
Kaplan Kaplan Non-Whistling E String for violin is specifically designed to eliminate the whistling sound associated with some violins on the open E and it produces a sweet, rich tone that blends well with the lower strings.

Larsen

Larsen Larsen violin strings have a synthetic gut core. The D is available in either silver or aluminium and there is a choice of either gold or steel for the E string which is available in either loop or ball end.
Tzigane Designed on a new composite fibre core, Larsen Tzigane strings offer a sound similar to gut strings, providing a broad range of tonal colours. Lower tension increases carrying power while producing a pleasing sound.
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Thomastik

Dominant Dominant violin strings are a very popular choice for student and professional player alike. Constructed with a multi-strand perlon core, Dominant strings offer the tonal warmth of gut, without the disadvantages.
Infeld Red Infeld strings fulfill the soloist's desire for true tonal expression. Offered in Red or Blue, strings from each line may be mixed and matched to improve tonal balance while maintaining homogenous string tension across all strings. Infeld Red offers the darker, broader elements of tone.
Infeld Blue Infeld Blue provides a brilliant, more focused sound than the Infeld Red and can be used in combination with the entire Thomastik range.
Vision Vision strings are wound on a synthetic core and used in combination with Thomastik's other synthetic core strings.
Available in fractional sizes.
Vision Titianum As a leader in orchestral string design and production, Thomastik-Infeld continues their legacy with Vision Titanium strings. Wound on an advanced synthetic core, Vision Titanium Solo strings offer playing characteristics preferred by soloists.
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Jargar

Jargar These strings have been popular for many years due to their clear, bright sound. Jargars have a warm tone when compared to most other all-metal strings.

Hill

Hill Hill violin E strings come in thin, medium and thick gauges and with either a loop or ball end. They are popular for instruments with a whistling E.
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Warchal

Warchal Warchal strings are handmade of synthetic fibres wrapped with special alloys and metals. They offer a rich variety of timbres which adjust perfectly to the sound characteristics of your instrument. They are impervious to changes of temperature or humidity.

Corelli

Corelli Corelli Alliance Vivace violin strings have the warmth of gut with great projection and stability. They comprise aluminium or silver winding on a wound synthetic core.
Corelli Corelli Crystal strings are a synthetic core string composed of aluminium and wound stabilon. They are stable and easily played in.
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