Evah Pirrazi Gold:

Tonica:

Violino: 

Strings

Millant Natural rosin (with hand crafted box)

This beautiful new product is a felicitous blend of our fine Millant rosin, natural grade. The case is an artistic collaboration with an Italian box-maker, who has created these delightful violin-shaped boxes of exotic, aromatic woods.

Rosin

Gold & Silver

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The Gold & Silver rosin provides a softer and smoother sound as compared with the Millant Dark rosin. This rosin gives a stronger and more aggressive sound whilst providing better bow grip and response.

Millant Dark Deroux 

Millant Deroux Collophane

During the second half of the 19th century, the French bow makers reached the top of their art. Their contemporary, Mr. S.A. Deroux, both a violin and a rosin maker, understood that it was urgent to create a superior rosin to enable these fine bows to make all fine instruments built until then sound perfectly - and so he did.Many bow makers of this epoch didn't stamp their bows. Certainly, rosin makers did not.When Roger & Max Millant succeeded Mr. Deroux, they improved their rosin, and put the logo "M.D." on top of each rosin confirming that this rosin was made in the traditional way and that only the very best materials were used. They also knew that musicians prefer stamped rosins just as well as stamped bows.

How to make rosins:

Raw materials:

The extraction of resin from conifers has been going on since the dawn of time. In addition to its use in colophane, resin is also used as an adhesive and sealant.Today, the primary crude resin is extracted from the pine, of which more than 100 species exist. Pine trees may be found all over Europe, Asia, North America and New Zealand. Many conifers, such as larches, spruces and firs are also used for extracting resin. These trees, however, yield considerably less resin. Their resin is used as trace elements in rosin, to control and modify tonal properties.

Rosin Extraction:

The resin is extracted from the living tree, a process that does the tree no harm. Resin is not the tree´s "life-sap" - it serves only to seal off wounds. The wood also suffers no technical damage, as the "resined" area behind the area where the bark has been peeled off is restricted to a few millimetres. When the trunks are cut in order to tap the resin, these "rosined" pieces fall into the cut edges of the bark.

1) The first step in obtaining the resin is to remove the rough outer bark of trees which are to be tapped for the first time at a height of approximately 50 cm, at the beginning of the warmer season.

2) Use a special stirrup-shaped tool for scraping off the bark and making the drip channel

3) In the second step of the process, V-shaped grooves about 1 cm wide are cut into the thin inner layer of bark remaining after the first stage, using a plane. As a result of "wounding" the tree in this way, the resin begins to flow into the container hung under the cuts. The tree must be cut into again every 4-5 days.

4) Use a special tool for making the grooves cut in the surface of the trunk (plane, right side of tool) and for cleaning out the drip channel (left side)

Finishing:

When you have composed your ideal formula, mix it up and put it in a large vat, over the fire. After the resins are completely melted, pour the hot, liquid rosin into moulds placed on marmore. After 30 minutes, your rosins are ready for finishing - but here is a problem you didn't expect. The top surface has now got a hollow that will prevent the bow hair from collecting rosin properly during the first two months of use. To correct this, reverse the rosin after it is cool and completely hardened. Then you will have the ideal, flat surface. Now, polish this surface and put your stamp on it, confirming that it has been made personally by your self. Now afix the rosin to a soft cloth to protect your fingers.

​Packing:It is very important to use only tightly sealed containers. Rosin is like varnish - it dries during each month that passes. When buying rosin in a music shop you never know how long it has been waiting for you. The rosin will stay fresh for a very long time when it is not exposed to the air - no remelting needed.If your home-made rosins are fantastic, you can start selling them. Just remember that if you sell to any C.E.E. country, you are obliged by law as of July 1, 1994 to furnish each rosin with a detailed listing of the resin it contains.Last but not least: Don't be stingy - give your customer a full value for his money. A standard size of a rosin is almost 1 1/2 inch diameter (37 mm) and almost 1 inch tall (22 - 24 mm)

Thomastik Dominant:

Comparable in sound to gut, without gut's disadvantages

These strings have a highly flexible, multi-strand nylon core and cater for artists who feel uncomfortable with steel strings. The resounding success of our Dominant string owes a lot to its similarity in tone and response to gut strings, without gut's attendant drawbacks.

The sound of the Dominant string is full and mellow, yet rich in overtones. Its radiance, its ability to project sound without being metallic, comes to the fore both in arco and pizzicato. Other advantages are Dominant's effortless response to intricate fingering and its tuning stability even under extreme atmospheric conditions. But Dominant's beauty of tone is not as long lasting as that of a steel string, a price the discerning musician will be prepared to pay for this quality of sound. Dominant strings should be changed at appropriate intervals to ensure continuity of tone color.

Vision:

Thomastik-Infeld, the innovative leader in orchestral string design and production for 85 years, are pleased to continue their legacy with the introduction of the Vision strings for violin. These strings are specifically designed to full fill the needs of advanced violinists, including those who excel in orchestreal or chamber group settings. They settle in quickly and  can achieve a stable tuning within a very short time and are exceptionally easy to play.

Their durability is unsurpassed compared to other synthetic core strings.Players will be pleased with the compatibility between Vision strings and other Thomastik-Infeld synthetic core strings such as Dominant, Infeld Red and Blue. 
Vision violin strings - made with your vision in mind.

Vision Solo:

Vision Titanium have a pure focused tone, and are the choice of solists. The ball ends are made of Titanal. The string surface is highly polished. Vision Titanium violin strings are available in two versions: Soloist and Orchestral/Chamber musician.

Evah Pirazzi:

• Evah Pirazzi strings have a core made from a modern synthetic multifilament fibre. 

• very intensive and powerful, excellent for Soloists
• outstanding playability and exceptional response at any of the dynamic levels
• complex sound, rich with overtones based on a brilliant core sound
• enormous projection
• Evah Pirazzi strings translate every minute impulse from bow and fingers into beautiful sounds.
• expressive, great nuances
• enormous dynamic range
• outstanding tuning stability
• absolutely insensitive to variations in temperature and humidity
• suitable also for electric or electrically-amplified violins

L'Opera - Jade rosin 

L'Opera or also known as Jade rosin is ultra-soft, ultra-strong Jade rosin for the violin, viola, cello and double-bass.

This formula has properties of dust-free adhesion. It avoids metallic residues, which do not contribute to grip, and may possibly scratch fine varnishes.

Millant Light (Natural) Deroux 

The Millant natural rosin strikes a happy medium between the classic dark rosin and the new Colophane 2000 Gold & Silver. The natural grade rosin offers the smooth sound of the classic dark blended with the robust, sparkling sound of the Colophane 2000.

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Infeld Red or Blue:

Infeld Violin

Up till now violinists have influenced the sound of individual strings, and of their violin as a whole, by using a mix of strings with different gradations of tension (high, middle, low), or even using strings from different manufacturers. Due to the entirely different characteristics of individual strings, both strategies strongly affected the tonal balance of the instrument, forcing the violinist or the violin maker to optimize the instrument by a laborious process of trial and error. Different strings meant that different times were required to play in the strings, and that their playing life-spans differed. Response characteristics were also uneven. The result was that for the violinist the string set did not behave as balanced whole, each string responding unequally to his or her playing. With Thomastik-Infeld's new concept Infeld Violin, string types can be changed at will, allowing the violinist to affect the overall tonal balance of his or her instrument with ease yet retaining smoothly matched playing characteristics.

At present there are two types of Infeld Violin strings, whereby the red set will produce a rather dark sound on the majority of violins, while the blue set will tend to bring out the instrument's brilliance. Tonal balance, playing characteristics at any given position and string response are excellent throughout. This is possible due to homogenous string tension at various pitches and design parameters which balance the overall behaviour of the set irrespective of the combination of strings. Using the INFELD VIOLIN system, both the violinist and the violin maker will find that the instrument can be optimized in a very short time.

Vision Titanium :

Vision Titanium Orchestra strings are targeted to orchestra players as well as chamber music players. The strings have been developed to replace gut strings and can be mixed and matched with synthetic core strings and pure gut strings. Ball ends are made of Titanate and the surface is treated in a special way.

Peter Infeld :

Named to pay homage to the late Mr. Infeld, Peter Infeld violin strings are designed for discriminating players who demand complexity of tone, a rich spectrum of sound colors, and power and elegance. These awesome strings include the first ever platinum plated E string! All E strings are chrome steel core and A, D, & G strings are synthetic core with the windings 

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