Thomastik Dominant Pro 4/4 violin string SET, with ball Bell-like sound character for a room-filling sound Strong bow pressure resistance and soloistic suitability Very high dynamics (can be played very quietly and very loudly) Immediately after winding, the set of strings sounds bell-like and room-filling. In the first three to five hours of playing, the strings feel a little softer and sound a little warmer than they will for the rest of their life. Then the string opens up, sounds more brilliant and open, and feels a bit tighter under the fingers. The bell-like sound space feeling becomes somewhat less in the last third of the strings' life, they sound more direct - from this point onwards the sound character of the strings hardly changes. E-string: Carbon steel, tin plated ball (re.
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