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Your cart is empty.The Yamaha French Horn String is a yellow rotor string for maintaining the French horn or the rotor valve on the trombone.
Christopher A. Pinto
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2023
You can't go wrong with Yamaha horn string and this is my go to string for my Elkhart Conn 8D. If you aren't familiar with various horn brands, you should note that this string is thick (1mm) and you will NOT be able to use on all horns. Some require a thinner (0.7mm) string in order to fit through the holes drilled in the valve levers.
Mr. B
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2022
Good service and perfect replacement.
James
Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2020
Enough to do all the rotors
Nell
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020
Who knew that different manufacturers have different hole sizes for stringing cord? This is slightly larger in diameter than the horn I was trying to fix. I ultimately took it to my local repair shop and their expert restrung a weird (to me) thumb valve.
M. Broschi
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2019
Quality seems OK. Unfortunately, too thick for my Schmid horn.
Joel Washok
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2019
Works great, my daughter is hard on her trigger and this has been the best string so far.
Mark
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2016
This is a very heavy duty string that looks like it will last for a long time -- so it is of good quality. However, it is also very thick. I have an OLDS double French Horn from the 70's and for the life of me could not figure out how to get that string through the holes, no matter what I did. I ended up making the string holes just a TINY bit larger by drilling them out with 1/16" bit and that shaved just enough off on the diameter of the hole to do the trick! Perhaps the newer horns will not have this problem.
Michael Abd El Malak
Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2015
This is much stronger than another horn string I got on the internet. Good quality and does what it needs to do.
Wilmington,DE
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2014
Works well. Pretty easy to use - of course assuming you know how to tension this for proper valve function. Used this for the 3rd valve I have fixed using the setup of other valves as an example. It has it's challenges, but is OK if you are patient. I found it best to start with a piece longer than necessary, then trim it after everything was tied.
RickDeckard
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2013
If you're using this to string your horn, it can take a lot of continual stringing and restringing. I was very pleased. It's very expensive compared to buying the thinner bulk fishing line that you can buy (research which is the proper thickness and material content before you ever buy those things) but it should last a long time. Very happy with its elasticity, but it is a bit thick. Depending on your horn's hardware, you may have to really really tug on the string to fit it around and around the posts, screws, etc.Also: best trick is to cut about 6" or more of the string with a very sharp razor blade or sharp scissors, then dip the ends on both sides in a very minute speck of Elmer's school glue. Let dry and put your extra strings in a small Ziploc baggie for quick restringing. It makes a great backup prep kit.Good luck!
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