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 D'Addario has produced strings in America since 1905 and is the largest string manufacturer in the world. The use of high-tech machinery like their Tension Control System guarantees consistency of each of the 300,000 strings produced daily. D'Addario uses recycled and recyclable materials in the packaging, and soy based ink in much of their product line.
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Zyex The Zyex core material was developed for the Aerospace industry and is perfectly suited for it's new application in a violin string. Less tension loss ensures a much longer playing life than Perlon or other synthetic core strings. Most importantly, the longer cycle of performance decay provides the violinist with many weeks of consistent playing characteristics. Light tension is a popular gauge choice because Medium is heavier as compared to Medium gauges in other brands of strings. |
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| Kaplan Golden Spiral Solo Premier gut core string. Imported sheep gut cores are individually mounted on pneumatic stretching racks where the natural fibers are subjected to a series of treatments of dampening, stretching, and drying to stabilize the material. Each strand is then individually ground to a precise diameter, wound with aluminum or silver alloys, and polished to a smooth exterior. Digital winding controls allow for exact spacing of the windings to facilitate expansion and contraction of the gut core. Available for violin and viola. Golden Spiral strings are sold individually by your choice of gauge. Kaplan Golden Spiral Same production as "Golden Spiral Solo"-No gauge selections. |
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Pro Arte A synthetic Perlon core enables D'Addario's Pro Arte strings to offer the sound and feel of traditional gut strings without the problems associated with delicate gut cores. The finest aluminum, silver, and tungsten alloys are precision wound and polished on D'Addario's state-of-the-art winding machines. Carefully hand finished and hand inspected, this is a string for the professional or serious amateur. Available in small sizes |
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| Helicore Steel rope core string. Helicores are crafted with a multi-strand twisted steel core and wound with exotic metals like titanium (used here for the first time in bowed instrument strings). These innovative materials have enabled D'Addario to design strings with a very small diameter to provide extremely quick bow response. The application of damping resins under selected windings gives the Helicores a warm, rich sound, quite unlike steel strings of the past. The strings are subtle under the ear, yet carry great projection in large concert halls. Helicores stay in tune especially well due to their cores, and retain a long playing life. Made in small sizes to 1/16. |
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Prelude D'Addario Preludes are solid high-carbon steel core strings with polished pure nickel windings. Introduced in 1983, Preludes have undergone systematic improvements to make them the finest sounding and playing student-grade strings on the market today. Each string is wound on D'Addario's latest Kaplamatic winding equipment, where layer upon layer of winding is applied without removing the core tension. During the winding phases, damping resin is applied under the wrap wire to reduce the brightness of tone usually associated with solid steel core strings. Available for violin, viola, and cello in many sizes. |
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