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This episode is brought to you in association with For-Tune Strings.

Today’s podcast guest is cellist Anastasia Kobekina, who was lucky enough to have the opportunity to help develop For-Tune’s new Opal Gold cello strings, through a series of trials and feedback. Not many string players get the chance to have direct input on their ideal set of strings: Anastasia shares with online editor Davina Shum what she looks for in an ideal string, including the type of sound and playability. 

Anastasia plays the 1698 ’De Kermadec-Bläss’ Stradivari cello courtesy of the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger.

If you have an opinion on an issue raised in The Strad or on The Strad online, why not write us a letter? If yours gets chosen as The Strad’s Letter of the Month, a set of For-Tune Opal Titan violin or cello strings will be all yours! Email thestrad@thestrad.com

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Photo credit: Julia Altukhova

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