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- #299 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
- #1 in Violin Strings
Prelude violin strings are solid steel core strings, unaffected by temperature and humidity changes, and have excellent bow response. Prelude strings have the warmest sound available in an economy, solid steel core string design. Prelude is the educator's preferred choice for student strings due to their unique blend of warm tone, economy, and durability. Works well either amplified or acoustic.
Ernst Snchh
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2025
nice
DAVID M.
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2025
My 94 year old father-in-law was having some issues with his violin. Several strings just sounded dead. I told him I would take a look at it. Come to find out the two of the four strings were beginning to lose there outer windings. He could not see this as his vision is not the greatest.Swapped out his strings, tuned them, and rosined up his bow a what a difference. A nice full sound on all strings. He is for now, a happy violinist!
Brittaney Allen
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2024
When I was hyper fixating on learning the violin at 31 years old, I broke my E string. This guy came in handy with quick shipping. I'd get two. Or three.Oh and no I never got around to learning. I ADHD flopped to something else about 2 months in haha
Ryan Haltom
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2024
I've played violin for upwards of about 12 years now. These are the most basic, okayest sounding and playing strings you can buy. If you have the money, definitely get "Dominant" strings. But for 20 dollars, they work and sound alright for the money
Caroline
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2024
Would buy again!I think the price is about the same as buying them at my local music store. Now I can get them from 2 places.
Reviewer
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2024
I bought these for my violin because my strings were broken. I decided to buy a nice quality brand. The reviews on this product were good. I’ve attached it to my violin and it sounds really good. It is priced well and is an And is a good quality. It hasn’t broken since it is providing a very good feel when Playing. It is also easy to tune. I would buy again.
Heinz
Reviewed in Germany on September 24, 2023
Dies Violin Saiten kann ich nur empfehlen, gut ansprechbar und auch nicht teuer!
Ricardo
Reviewed in Brazil on March 6, 2023
A projeção do som ficou muito agradável no meu violino. Senti uma melhora na resposta das notas em relação ao encordoamento que utilizava anteriormente. Atendeu minhas espectativas.
Ashok Agrawal
Reviewed in India on March 5, 2023
Very poor quality, damaged within 2 days of use
Adult Beginner
Reviewed in Canada on February 18, 2021
When setting up my first violin as a beginner, I found specs for action stating 5.5mm G, 3.5mm E measured at the end of the fingerboard. These are correct (and necessary) when running synthetic strings with lower tension and more string movement during vibrations. Steel strings are super stable and last way longer than sythetics so i was keen to cheap out and go with these prelude strings. If just doing a string change, these strings will feel pretty stiff with standard action. I'm running them on 2 electric violins with action set to 4.5mm, 3.0mm and they feel similar to my acoustic with synthetics. The high tension of these strings also means that 4 fine tuners are practically a must. I've had them on my electric for over 3 years and have only used the pegs to take up slack about 3-4 times. The fine tuners on my acoustic are way too fine for the 3 synthetic strings and I need to use the pegs every time I tune. If you're looking for super stable, long lasting strings and can handle the stigma of running 4 fine tuners, it could be well worth having a second bridge made to run the lower action.
Dani Jo
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2021
See below for my background, but I'm putting the important points up top: these strings have really good projection and very bright, clear tone with easy action.Suggested use cases: Beginners, bluegrass, folk, country, and they'll probably sound good on an electric violin (Only have the one set, so I can't test them on my e-fiddle!). They'll be fine in a student or community orchestra as well. Just make sure you're in tune. They're extremely easy to put on provided your violin has a ball end chin rest. Most student violins, especially those with a Whitmer tailgut will be of the ball end variety.Bottom line: excellent value for money, very clear tone, the open strings really 'ring' out beautifully.I've been playing fiddle for about six or seven months now, but I've been a musician literally all my life. I received a used instrument that had, at the time, year old Dominant strings on it that I purchased these to replace. It's taken me this long to actually do the deed because I was frankly uneasy about changing the strings. I had a Chinese VSO (violin-shaped object) before this that literally fell apart when I tried to take one string off, but as long as you have a good quality instrument and only change one string at a time, you'll be fine(mine was a VSO from, like, 1995, literally made of plywood with the sound post glued in place!)The difference between these and Dominant strings, besides the price (Dominants retailing at about $50) is mostly in the tone coloration. These strings are very clear and bright, which some people might describe as "nasally" or "thin". If you have a violin that's already very muddy and dark sounding (the opposite direction from bright/clear) you'll get a good balance from these. But even if you don't, chances are you'll be fine with these strings. If they do sound too shrill for you, you might be able to have your luthier make adjustments to your violin.If you don't have a luthier, get a luthier. Buy them a round or two, or bake them some brownies, whatever you have to do to get into their good graces. You'll thank me when your violin comes unglued (No, really. This is a thing that happens, and it's an easy fix for a qualified luthier/technician)
invisible
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2018
Somehow I can't imagine putting nylon or other synthetic core strings on a 130 year old fiddle. I'm not an every day player so the boxes of strings that I'd gotten back in the early 80s lasted until recently, but finally did run out. The maker had stopped making violin strings so I shopped around, found these steel cores these were about the closest thing to them in playability, very stable. Tone takes getting used to but I like it.D'Addario makes a whole line of good strings, so that I've swapped most of my guitars to them as well. For some reason given equal sizes they seem more stable than a lot of the competitors' strings.Edited to add that these are perfectly good for an old German fiddle, but since I got time for daily practice I’ve found them to be inadequate for my ‘good’ fiddle. So on that one Ive swapped out to Perlon strings. Edited again to mention that even as my playing has considerably improved I find they still give more focus and power to that old fiddle.
Tinote
Reviewed in France on March 7, 2013
Les cordes sont de bonne qualité, sauf le mi qui a un son assez désagréable. Mais bon pour l'instant il n'y a pas de soucis particulier.
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