TAILPIECES
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Bois d'Harmonie tailpieces |
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Hill tailpiececlick on image to enlarge
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Simple without tuners The Hill model is the English tradition, with a central ridge. |
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French Ebony violin 1 tunerclick on image to enlarge
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Incorporated tuners A wooden tailpiece, made of ebony, boxwood, rosewood or pernambuco, a lightweight composite tuner, which does not alter the neck projection. "Harmonie" models are Frech style, ebony, standard length with 4 tuners. |
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Cello "Harmonie"click on image to enlarge |
Our cello tailpieces with integrated tuners
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Pernambuco tailpiececlick on image to enlarge |
Permambuco The ability of Pernambuco to sound transmission makes it an ideal wood for tailpieces. Musicians ascribe it a more open sound, a sharp attack, and a better "placed" sound. It is the deluxe version of Harmonie tailpieces. |
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Sonowood is a material developed in Switzerland by Swisswood solutions, with a view to countering deforestation linked to the overexploitation of certain species traditionally used in the making of accessories for the quartet for their exceptional density or stability. The woods used are endemic species such as spruce, maple, walnut or beech, densified by compression at densities between 1100 and 1400 kg / m3, without injection of resins. (Model shown: spruce) | |
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Technical Notes Several lengths of tailpieces are proposed: (in order to adapt to the length of the instrument) |
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The tailpiece connects the four strings to the lower part of the instrument. This bar, originally made of light wood, has became stronger to withstand the high tension of modern metal strings. 
