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Thomastik-Infeld is an Austrian company founded in 1919, located in Vienna developing and producing strings and rosins for bowed and fretted string instruments.
The company still makes "Dominant" strings, one of the earliest brands of perlon string, now considered a standard for comparison to other synthetic string sets. Other string brands from the company include:
- Vision
- Spirocore
- Superflexible
- Belcanto
- Infeld (Red and Blue)
- Prazision
The Beginning of the Company:
In 1919, Dr. Franz Thomastik, a violin maker and Otto Infeld, acivil engineering specialist decided to found the company, invented the steel string and thus caused a revolution in the music world.
Suddenly the conventional gut string was challenged by a new string with the highest quality of tone, precision and reliability. It was received enthusiastically by virtuosi across the world.
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