P.1012 Protos Violin String, A

Manufacturing strings for stringed instruments is a speciality of the house Optima. Building on a tradition of string manufacture in the region around the German town of Markneukirchen stretching back more than 200 years and an more than 110 years of expierence in our own company, we at Optima produce high-quality strings for stringed instruments. The combination of this expierence and the careful selection of raw materials and high-quality winding wires ensures a stable and high quality standard.Steel strings wound with fine nickel flat wire for violin, viola, cello and doublebass. These strings are ideally suited for both students are artists. The renowned violin virtuoso Roby Lekatos is so convinced of the quality of this brand that it is the only brand of string he plays on. These flat-wound string have very smooth surfaces an their easy playing and quick response are outstanding. These strings do not sound at all hard or "metallic", thanks to their special construction they produce a brilliant and soft sound.If tuned correctly within the set, these strings have approximately the same string tension, wich is no greater than that of gut or nylon core strings. There is thersfore absolutly no need to worry that instruments strung with PROTOS strings are subject to excessive strain or that the instruments might be damaged. Collapse text