Thomastik-Infeld
Topic: Company
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| Founded | 1919 |
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| Headquarters | , Austria |
| Website | thomastik-infeld |
Thomastik-Infeld Gmbh 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. They also make strings for folk instruments from various countries such as the mandolin or erhu.
History
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 1958, Thomastik-Infeld introduced the Spirocore line of spiral rope-core strings. Later 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]
List of String Brands
Violin string brands from the company include:[4]
- Vision (Standard, Solo, Titanium Orchestra, and Titanium Solo)
- Spirocore
- Superflexible
- Infeld (Red and Blue)
- Präzision
- Alphayue
- Peter Infeld
- Evertone
- Rondo (Gold and Standard)
- TI
- Spirit!
- DYNAMO (Standard and Solo)
Many famous violinists, including Itzhak Perlman, Hilary Hahn, and Isaac Stern, have used Thomastik-Infeld strings.[5]
References
- ↑ bitslice.at, nikpichler com, freigeist at. "Thomastik-Infeld Vienna" (in en). https://www.thomastik-infeld.com/en/history.
- ↑ Thomastik to Release New 'Dynamo' Violin Strings in mid-March. 15 February 2023.
- ↑ Tonic Challenge: Win DYNAMO violin strings. 2023 March 13.
- ↑ bitslice.at, nikpichler com, freigeist at. "Orchestral Strings Violin | Products | Thomastik-Infeld Vienna" (in en). https://www.thomastik-infeld.com/en/products/orchestral-strings/violin.
- ↑ "Famous Violinst's [sic] String Brand Choices (Interesting!) | Violin Strings | Violin Strings" (in en). 20 January 2018. https://www.violin-strings.com/string_faq/famous-violinsts-string-brand-choices/.
External links
- 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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