Thomastik-Infeld
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| Founded | 1919 |
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| Headquarters | , Austria |
| Website | thomastik-infeld |
Thomastik-Infeld is an Austrian company based in Vienna that develops and produces strings and rosins for bowed and fretted string instruments, including the violin, viola, cello, contrabass, guitar, and bass guitar.
In 1919, Dr. Franz Thomastik, a violin maker, and Otto Infeld, a civil engineer, founded a company to manufacture steel strings. Thomastik-Infeld's workshops were destroyed in World War Two.
In 1970, the company introduced its Dominant line of perlon strings, which successfully broke into a market then dominated by the conventional gut string.[1]
The company was run by Peter Infeld from 1994 until his death on April 15, 2009, at 67 years old. The company is now run by Zdenka Infeld.
In 2021, the company launched the Dominant Pro line of strings, and in 2023, the DYNAMO line.[2][3]
Other string brands from the company include:
- Vision
- Spirocore
- Versum
- Superflexible
- Belcanto
- Infeld (Red and Blue)
- Prazision
- Alphayue
- Peter Infeld
Many famous violinists, including Itzhak Perlman, Hilary Hahn, and Isaac Stern, have used Thomastik-Infeld strings.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ bitslice.at, nikpichler com, freigeist at. "Thomastik-Infeld Vienna". www.thomastik-infeld.com. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Thomastik to Release New 'Dynamo' Violin Strings in mid-March. 15 February 2023.
- ^ Tonic Challenge: Win DYNAMO violin strings. 2023 March 13.
- ^ "Famous Violinst's [sic] String Brand Choices (Interesting!) | Violin Strings | Violin Strings". 20 January 2018. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
External links
[edit]- Thomastik-Infeld
- Connolly Music Company - Exclusive US importers of Thomastik-Infeld strings
- Synwin Music - Exclusive Distributor of Thomastik-Infeld strings in Singapore
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