• The Il Cannone Medium E string is 0.26 mm and the Il Cannone Soloist E string is 0.27 mm, so the new 0.28 E string should be considered a Strong E string.
• The new 0.28 E string offers a fine yet powerful and brilliant sound and an extremely fast response in both low and high dynamics and is already the preferred E string for a number of Larsen Artists.
• The new 0.28 E string is intended as a specialist string that will not be included in the standard Il Cannone Medium and Soloist sets.
• However, to enable a wide range of violinists to try out this new string we are offering the new 0.28 E string for free in special launch sets of Il Cannone Medium and Soloist in an introduction period.

Larsen Il Cannone for Violin - Dedicated to the Artists

New for violin, our new Il Cannone celebrates Paganini’s legacy with what we believe to be a truly revolutionary sound. In the design and development process, Larsen always aim to produce the exceptional but it is only during the testing and trial process with hands-on musicians that they can truly know for certain.

And Larsen Strings would seem to have succeeded. The feedback from musicians has confirmed that playability and feel on the fingerboard is excellent with a good resistance to the bow. Descriptions of the sound that our Il Cannone sets deliver include: Noble and powerful. A biting tone with real punch. Highly colourful with many intricate harmonics. Clear. Open. Brilliant. A very fast and easy response especially in spicatto.

Designed to bring out the best in your violin, Il Cannone individual strings and sets are available as two versions.

The Medium variant has a more moderate tension with an open, colourful, projecting, richer and powerful sound whilst the Soloist brings a fuller tone, with even more presence and focus.

String Details

The Il Cannone E string is made using a unique carbon steel, while the A, D and G strings build on a new, synthetic multi-filament core. The A string is wound with precision rolled aluminium flat wire and the D and G strings are wound with pure silver.