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Thomastik-Infeld

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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.

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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]

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