New voice...

I rushed to the music store earlier this evening - all I wanted was an A-string for my violin, and I didn't care about the brand, since I understood that the stores run out of Dominant strings from Thomastik-Infeld.

As it turned out, it was my lucky day! The lady at the music store greeted me with a big smile, announcing that they had stacks of Thomastic-Infeld strings by now, all in their new packaging! Wow! It was an exciting surprise!

Last night I went online to www.thomastik-infeld.com and read some reviews about the strings. They have a new line of violin strings, Infeld, and it sounds really good...rather tempting, as it is mentioned on the website that the Infeld red-set (which was available at the store) would produce a rather dark sound on the majority of violins. Why not give it a try? Didn't I always want my violin to have a 'kicking' and rather 'masculine' voice?

Somehow I didn't hesitate and bought one set of Infeld the red set. Finally my violin's got new strings! I got goose-bumps once the strings were set and I tried to play my violin...it did have different voice, just like what was described on the website, it's darker voice. It seems like my violin loves these strings better than the Dominant ones :-) Another thing that's new for me was the gold-plated E-string...never played with a gilded string before, it gives a funny but very pleasant feeling...:-)


My violin's new strings
(Wolfgang, they are Austrian...;-))