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Products January 2023: Opal Gold cello strings

2022-12-07T09:36:41.400

Frontal Opal Gold cello set

A cello set heralds the launch of a new range

For-Tune Strings has launched its new Opal Gold range with a set for cello. Following on from the Opal Titan, and using the Titan’s bespoke machinery and methods, Opal Gold goes ‘further in its brilliance and range of possibilities’ says marketing manager Jordi Palau. The set’s most notable innovation is the ‘steel twin-X core’ of the tungsten-wound C and G strings. ‘The core is divided into two parts, which are twisted in different directions, among other innovations,’ says research and development manager Curdin Coray. The result of this new construction, he says, is more flexibility, improved attack and more brilliance…

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