The Latest News from Sønderborg
The latest news from Larsen Strings. Please read updates on forthcoming events, new products, recent visits and recent visitors.
Image: Dr Thomas Zwieg and Ole Wichman with Rusanda Panfili and Tina Guo
larsenstrings.com: The New Website
In order to improve our service to you we have significantly redesigned our online presence with this new update. The new, contemporary style has been adopted to allow for fully responsive viewing and straightforward navigation on most devices from mobile to tablet to...
Discovering a new richness of sound with Katharina Kühl from the NDR Symphony Orchestra
The cello group of the NDR Symphony Orchestra, a long-term cooperation partner of ours, has given us invaluable feedback during the past years. Last week we had the pleasure of working again with one of the cellists from Hamburg. Katharina Kühl came by with her old...
Trying Magnacore® and Magnacore Arioso strings with Troels Svane
On a beautiful afternoon in Lübeck, Prof. Troels Svane had gathered his class and invited some violin-makers for a string session. Dr. Thomas Zwieg, product development manager at Larsen Strings, was there to present the Magnacore® and Magnacore Arioso cello strings....
Highlights 2015: Larsen Strings’ 25th anniversary year
Our 25th anniversary year is drawing to an end, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for choosing Larsen Strings. In 2015, we launched a revised version of our website and a new blog, all with the purpose...
Violinmaker Ian Crawford McWilliams visiting Larsen Strings in Sønderborg
While many musicians in the search of the perfect set-up come to us, once in a while violinmakers also find their way to us. Yesterday, Ian Crawford McWilliams, a Canadian violinmaker living in Brandenburg an der Havel, traveled all the way to Southern Denmark to...
Effortless playing with lower tension strings
Trying strings with musicians is always an experience full of surprises. When Susanne Hoffmann from the South Denmark Philharmonic came to visit us, she brought with her a Bächle cello from 1993 strung with Larsen Soloist and Original strong strings, as recommended by...
Finding inspiration for string development can only come through close collaboration with you, the musician.
Truly understanding the needs, expectations and wishes of musicians can only come through many years of collaboration. Many musicians support the development of Larsen’s strings by coming to the company, trying and talking strings with its development team. By...
Discovering new sound possibilities for the string quartet
By: Anton Ilyunin from the Atrium String Quartet www.atriumquartet.com/ In 2014, a close relationship between the Atrium String Quartet and Larsen Strings was initiated. Last autumn, Larsen Strings had invited all four members of our quartet for a visit to their...
Testing cello strings with experts
A musical string is a matter of sound and playability. As such, describing its essence is never an easy task. The most powerful words are weak when it comes to capturing the true nature of a string. During the last months Larsen Strings has published some videos...
Testing strings with Jakob Elmedal Johansen
When trying strings with South Denmark Philharmonic’s violinist Jakob Elmedal Johansen, we talked about the way musicians view instruments, bows and strings. While Jakob placed much importance on the choice of instrument and bow, he had never given much thought to...
How to make an instrument sing
Dieter Göltl, assistant solo cellist at the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg came by with his Sacconi cello from 1926. Over the years, Larsen Strings has enjoyed very good collaboration with the cello section of the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and Mr. Göltl who had...
Larsen Strings A/S is celebrating its 25th Anniversary
It started with experiments in a garage in Sønderborg. On 25 June 2015 Larsen Strings A/S is celebrating its 25th Anniversary as one of the world's leading manufacturers of strings for bowed instruments. Back in 1990 Laurits Th. Larsen, then a violinist at the South...
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.
