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    The document provides information on different types of violin steel strings, including their gauges, tones, and sound characteristics. It lists string brands like No. 1 wound steel core, Flexocor, Chromcor, Piranito, and includes details like their peg and tail colors. The strings vary in tone from warm to bright, and qualities like projection, response, and suitability for different string sets. Sizes range from full to fractional and have associated peg end color codes.

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    The document provides information on different types of violin steel strings, including their gauges, tones, and sound characteristics. It lists string brands like No. 1 wound steel core, Flexocor, Chromcor, Piranito, and includes details like their peg and tail colors. The strings vary in tone from warm to bright, and qualities like projection, response, and suitability for different string sets. Sizes range from full to fractional and have associated peg end color codes.

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    08-05 Violin Steel Strings

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    Michael
    The document provides information on different types of violin steel strings, including their gauges, tones, and sound characteristics. It lists string brands like No. 1 wound steel core, Flexocor, Chromcor, Piranito, and includes details like their peg and tail colors. The strings vary in tone from warm to bright, and qualities like projection, response, and suitability for different string sets. Sizes range from full to fractional and have associated peg end color codes.

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    Violin Steel Strings

    color code
    peg tail
    quality gauge tone peg sound characteristics
    ring piece

    No. 1 soft E steel/ green rose- white with The non-whistling E-String
    wound steel core E-string medium chrome colored = black spiral • very warm, sweet and brilliant sound
    thick steel soft • very good projection
    • especially easy response
    olive = • no whistling of the open E-String
    thick • suitable with all string sets
    • ideal for musicians suffering from hand
    perspiration

    Flexocor- medium E steel green ruby The warm sounding steel string
    A black yellow • warm and round sound
    Permanent D red with ruby • great projection
    rope core steel string
    G brown spiral • good modulation, smooth and lively tone
    • easiest response

    Chromcor medium E chrome st. green green • brilliant sound


    steel string A black • big tonal volume
    D red • easy response, immediately tuned
    G brown
    medium A Eudoxa- black white with
    • fits perfectly in a set with gut strings
    Chromcor green spiral

    Piranito medium E steel green blue gray • attractively priced steel core string
    steel string A black • brilliant and bright sound
    D red • outstanding playability
    G brown
    A chrome st. dark gray
    For small instruments available:
    Tonica, Chromcor and Piranito: 3/4 – 1/2; 1/4 – 1/8; 1/16 – 1/32.
    Evah Pirazzi, Obligato, Violino and Synoxa: 3/4 – 1/2; 1/4 – 1/8.
    Eudoxa: 3/4 – 1/2.

    Color code at peg end for fractional sizes:


    3/4 – 1/2 yellow
    1/4 – 1/8 light blue
    1/16 – 1/32 dark blue

    Notes

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