Welcome to Larsen Strings
Home of the world’s first 10k Violin D: Il Cannone Gold.
Aurora Viola
New from Larsen Strings
An exceptional blend of quality, performance and affordability. Designed for both amateurs and professionals, these strings ensure a balanced, responsive and vibrant playing experience.
Our strings guru, Dr Thomas Zwieg, with Professor Maria Kliegel. Double take? A closer look reveals all.
‘Can you make me a cello A string?’
The answer was anything but simple but that chance remark led to the creation of Larsen Strings. The first Larsen cello A was successfully delivered from the family garage by our founder Laurits Th. Larsen and the Larsen family of strings began to grow along with the realisation that:
Although some of the best things happen by chance we can make them truly remarkable by design.
At Larsen Strings we develop, produce and market strings of the finest musical quality for bowed string instruments. Take a closer look and find out more…
Violin Strings
Explore Larsen Original, Virtuoso, Tzigane, Aurora & Il Cannone Medium & Soloist
Viola Strings
Explore Larsen Original, Virtuoso Medium, Medium Extra Long and Soloist
Cello Strings
Original, Soloist, Magnacore, Magnacore Arioso, Il Cannone. Aurora & Fractional
Our Design and Development Process
A key element of our creative process is working with musicians, one to one, testing string prototypes. For example, Maria Kliegel is a professor at the Cologne Academy of Music and we met up with her at the Bürgermeisterhaus in Essen, Germany to talk strings. The responses and insights gained from artists directly influences the formulation of new designs with the final creative phase being part of the audience at live performance.
Working with you...
Images from Kronberg Academy 2022 and other artists creating with us and in performance.
Gaining insight from musicians from touring professionals, education professionals, students and those just starting out.
Thank you
It’s all about the music and the music doesn’t end when our strings leave our home in Sønderborg. The passion that drives us in design and continuous improvement finds its reward in seeing and hearing our strings in performance.
“Our mission is to produce strings that allow musicians to express nuances in musical expression that close the distance between the composer and audience.”
Laurits Th. Larsen
Violinist and Founder, Larsen Strings A/S
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Sustainability & Larsen Strings
At Larsen Strings, sustainability isn’t just a buzzword; it’s an active commitment towards minimizing our ecological impact. Our dedication to environmental responsibility was recently affirmed during an enlightening conversation with Lea Brückner, last year’s #LarsenGewaScholarship winner, during her visit to our new DGNB Gold certified factory in Denmark.
As a Climate Ambassador, Lea was naturally eager to learn about our sustainability efforts, and we were thrilled to showcase our initiatives. The solar panels adorning the factory’s roof symbolize our earnest commitment to reducing our ecological footprint. Moreover, our factory, constructed with recycled materials, boasts enhanced energy efficiency, with power sourced from CO2-neutral means, aligning seamlessly with Sønderborg’s ambitious ProjectZero mission to have a carbon-neutral energy system by 2029.
Our strings are sealed in EU certified plastic to protect them against corrosion. Envelopes and cartons are made from FSC certified paper. All can be separated and recycled accordingly.
Innovative, energy-efficient facilities
From innovative, energy-efficient facilities to streamlined production processes, we’re actively minimizing waste and CO2 footprint on our journey towards a greener environment. We welcome Lea’s honest interest in this, as well as her tough questions about our policies, and hope together to strike the right chord for a more sustainable future!
Our thanks to Malene Lemann from ProjectZero for the illuminating explanation about Sønderborg’s ambitious plans!
Julia Turnovsky
Welcome to the family, Julia. "The Il Cannone Gold strings are a synthesis of unparalleled radiant, overtone-rich brilliance and velvety elegance in sound." From the very beginning, this combination of tonal diversity has been a great enrichment and inspiration for my...
Guy Johnston
A warm welcome to Guy Johnston to the Larsen Strings family: “Music-making of the highest order” The Guardian Guy plays the 1692 Antonio Stradivari cello known as the "Segelman, ex Hart" kindly loaned to him through the Beare's International Violin Society by a...
Welcome Fedor Rudin
“It’s a beautiful feeling when the instrument and all its associated 'tools' form a symbiosis and simply work. That’s how I felt when I first tried the Larsen Il Cannone Gold strings on my newly borrowed Stradivarius: they not only brought out the creamy, warm, and...
New Aurora Viola
Introducing Larsen Aurora for Viola An exceptional blend of quality, performance and affordability. Designed for both amateurs and professionals, these strings ensure a balanced, responsive and vibrant playing experience. . . . Aurora Viola
Anouchka Hack
Welcoming Anouchka Hack to the Larsen family: "Like us musicians, Larsen constantly keeps on searching for new colours and possibilities, inspiring growth - in my current set-up I have found depth and brilliance, and free reign for my creativity." Thank you! And great...
Jean-Guihen Queyras
A warm welcome to Jean-Guihen Queyras: 'The flexibility & warm power of my Larsen strings are the ideal tool to let the music blossom effortlessly.' Hearing is believing. Bach: Queyras. Complete cello suites new album released September 2024 (the 2023 sessions) on...
Aiming for sustainable solutions
Our ambition at Larsen Strings is to progressively work toward sustainable solutions in the way that we operate as a company. Some steps are small and some, such as our decision to upgrade to a C0² neutral electricity plan, are larger steps towards our destination.
Ingolf Nielsens Vej 14A , DK 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark.
Larsen Strings A/S has chosen to support the environment by upgrading to a CO2 neutral wind energy plan. Larsen Strings also supports UN World Goal 7 "Sustainable Energy" through its green choice.