The Art of Science

The original mechanical winding machine (pictured) was already over a century old when Laurits Th. Larsen first experimented with string design and manufacture.

Back in 1990 he had received a request for 300 strings to source for an American colleague, a request that he could not fulfil. His solution was to start producing them himself from the family garage. Some eighteen months later, the first cello A had been perfected. View the video for more…