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One of the most famous violin strings made in the 20th century was the Tricolore brand and now, after many decades of being unavailable, we are pleased to offer these strings again. This string was developed by Ray Neiner at the Perfection Musical String Co. Brunswick, IN just south of Chicago.

The machines we use at Gamut Music to wind strings were purchased from Perfection and in addition to the machines we also received the formulations that Perfection used to make their strings, including the Tricolore brand. We have in our archives a copy of the Perfection workshop book that specifies the gauge of gut used for the cores, the size of the wires, length of the strings, and colors of the thread used for the stockings at the top and bottom of the strings. In addition to this practical information, we also received instruction for the special curing treatment that the gut cores went through before being wound.
An original Tricolore viola D-2 string It is our belief that we are now able to offer and exact copy of this historical brand of musical string. The perfection strings were available only for the violin and viola and therefore these are the strings we are making available. Most notably, the Tricolore string used by Jascha Heifetz and many players are interested in reproducing this tone.

The string set that Heifetz used consisted of:
e-1 – Goldbrokat .26mm gauge
a-2 – Gut .76mm - .78mm gauge
D-2 - Gut 1.04mm – 1.06mm gauge
G-4 – Gut / Sterling silver .78mm - .80mm gauge

We have numerous Tricolore examples in our collection of antique strings and all of the violin examples fall into these gauge ranges. In addition to the plain gut strings we are also making the gut / aluminum strings as described in the Perfection workshop book. These are available for the violin a-2 and D-3 as well as the viola a-1 and D-2. The violin G-4 and viola G-3 and C-4 are made with sterling silver wire according to the Perfection specifications.

One addition we have made to the original string design is the addition of a leather washer at the knot of each string. Modern tailpieces are made with wider string slots than those of the early 20th century and the gut knot is no longer big enough to hold the string in place. The leather keeps the string from pulling through the tailpiece.