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Thoughts on Managing Loneliness as a Musician
Please read the latest contribution to Hattie Butterworth's Blog ‘It’s Just a Big Violin’. 'Thoughts on Managing Loneliness as a Musician' Loneliness can affect many music students not least with the constant demand for hours of individual practice. It is through...
Play for Peace: A Concert for Cooperation
This is an excellent initiative that we are pleased to publicise. Calling all classical musicians from around the world... Play for Peace: A Concert for Cooperation On Sunday 11 November 2018 for a global concert which will show that, one hundred years on, since the...
Kronberg Academy
Larsen Strings Workshop. 'How Can I Optimise My Instrument?' Dr. Ing. Thomas Zwieg, Product Development Manager at Larsen Strings A/S with Tobias Krutz, violinmaker and cellist. Dr. Ing. Thomas Zwieg and the violinmaker and cellist Tobias Krutz will explain and...
What Chamber Music Has Taught Us
The Odora Trio -An extract from Hattie Butterworth's Larsen Blog It's been almost two years since my piano trio and I fell together. Our violinist Sophie and I were close friends at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and when the cellist in her trio at the Royal...
Guest Blogs
Have you visited our guest musician blogs? To give contrasting perspective, the two blogs currently up and running, are from the viewpoint of a cello teacher in London and a student cellist currently studying at the Royal College of Music. The Student Cellist Hattie...
Featuring Jason Lippmann
New to our online Musicians section is Jason Lippmann. A cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Jason has recently performed contemporary works by Frank Zappa and Phillip Glass. He can also be heard on the sound track of major Hollywood productions including The...
A Life Less Ordinary…
Far be it from us to suggest the miraculous but we would like to think that we produce extraordinary strings. Did you know? The key stage in the development of every new string is you. We trial our strings extensively, hands on, with musicians to tweak and perfect the...
Larsen Strings on Tour
‘Strings have a far larger effect on the timbre and playing characteristics of a cello than one might expect. Similarly to our vocal folds, they contribute greatly to an instrument’s quality of articulation and expression. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zwieg from Larsen Strings A/S...
Once upon a time…
As a Danish company we could be forgiven for referring to one of our greatest literary figures, for example, in telling the story of an individual string. Where would be a very good place to start? Let’s start at the very beginning (no ugly ducklings involved). The...
Stradivarius vs Guarnerius
‘Trying out the Lord Aylesford 1696 Stradivarius on loan to me by the Nippon Music Foundation and the Joseph Filius Guarnerius 1694 from Beares in London.’ Cellist Pablo Ferrández compares the two greats. To make things fair, as in the...
Made in Denmark
As the Danish gentleman said. Part of a series of illustrated quotes from Hans Christian Andersen to follow over the next week or so. ‘Where words fail, music speaks.’ At Larsen Strings we would like to think that we are adding our voice to the conversation. Please...
New Featured Artists
North American Featured Musicians For our latest update of partner musicians, we are pleased to present four musicians from the United States. Magnacore® Arioso: Benjamin Karp, Professor of Cello at the University of Kentucky School of Music. Magnacore®: Dr. Kimberly...
Harald Haugaard & Il Cannone
Our thanks to Harald Haugaard for forwarding his impressions following his switch from Larsen Original to Il Cannone for violin: ‘For the past twenty five years my loyalty has always been to Larsen Original, in the light blue packets. But I’ve recently fitted the new...
Review on Larsen Virtuoso Viola Strings- Michelle Urquhart
Michelle Urquhart from Australia sent us this very nice review of our Virtuoso Viola Soloist strings: “I have played on these Viola strings over the last three months. There was a short settling/playing in period. At first, like all modern strings, they were slightly...
Nikolai Tunkowitsch plays Larsen Virtuoso®
‘Virtuoso are a good choice for me, absolute flexibility, the same for big halls or small ‘dry’ rooms, amplified or not. Even if you play as loud as possible the strings keep a noble tone, the response is fantastic, soft or hard. Virtuoso suit me and my playing...
Katri Patel’s Blog
Please visit Katri Patel's Blog here at Larsen Strings for an entertaining, at times poignant but always informative take on the life of a cello teacher in London. Katri was born in Finland and has played with many orchestras both in Finland and in the UK including...
Larsen Magnacore Medium strings – Review
We received a very nice review from Alessia Capodiferro, a cello teacher from Italy. “As soon as I put the Larsen Magnacore strings on my modern cello made in 2010, I immediately noticed a remarkable difference in the timbre of the instrument compared to the strings...
Emma Jardine about the Il Cannone® Soloist strings
Emma Jardine from the Streeton Trio has sent us this nice review of our Il Cannone® Soloist strings for violin: "When I first put these strings on my violin, I almost changed them back to the old set immediately, because they were so different to what I was used to....
Il Cannone on Instagram
Rusanda Panfili presents Il Cannone® for violin. In some segments of the video Rusanda plays the final prototypes used in the evolution of Il Cannone although with a different peg end silk winding to the version launched. Our thanks go to Rusanda not only for the...
Rusanda Panfili Presents Il Cannone® for Violin
In some segments of the video Rusanda plays the final prototypes used in the evolution of Il Cannone although with a different peg end silk winding to the version launched. Our thanks go to Rusanda not only for the production of this video...
