Limited Edition includes free 0.28 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.

Expanding the Il Cannone Universe

For our new Il Cannone Violin Direct & Focused in Medium & Soloist editions our aim was to develop a silvery and lustrous clarity of sound to enrich your style & instrument. Aimed at leading professionals and soloists as well as inspiring aspiring student and amateur violinists, we have developed an entirely new synthetic core at the heart of this new sound. Combining a new winding process we have further enriched the colours of this unique new formulation.

The new Direct & Focused sets have already travelled the world. Tested with musicians extensively in Europe, North America and Asia on both new instruments and old Italian instruments including Strads and del Gesù. Violinists describe the strings as having empowered the whole instrument with more colour possibilities, more clarity, more edge and greater gain.

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.

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.