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She got her info from D'Addario. Some of the historical information was interesting and new to me.
It used to be that all string producers except Aquila bought their filament, but yeah when D'Addario acquired a machine around 2017 which they used exclusively for their student line that meant they were ahead as far as I guess mainstream brands producing their own filament. Aquila has five machines.
Then there's the story of their Pro-Arte trebles: suddenly everyone was complaining about them. Did they start trying to produce it in house and got off to a rough start? (Mimmo Peruffo has said repeatedly at the classical forum that running these machines is very fussy work.) Are they getting filament from a new source? Some people say it sounds brighter now.
Ugh. Including singing praises to the 'laser selection process' of the 70-90s - what were you 'selecting', the strings came in bundles from Japan and D'Addario developed a reputation for quality trebles because of Toray's manufacturing quality.
And now that they decided to extrude them themselves (?*) or changed their supplier, people on classical forums are complaining the last few years of poor quality.
And 'nylon' is not one thing either.
And apparently no other string types exist except D'Addario's market offerings - no Aquila and its very different types of strings.
The enshitification of information in a polished video presentation.
(*) I can't find solid evidence that there is actual commercial (not a demo, not a toy) nylon string extrusion operation at D'Addario. The first pics in the video above are from the metal/bass string facility (despite her showing them supposedly as their nylon extrusion setup). Later on there are some closeups of an extrusion plant looking components, but no indication it is from D'Addario. Videos post-2013 that I've seen of tours of D'Addario's factories match the first images (re metal/bass strings) but nothing like the closeups, and extrusion is never shown in them. Curious if anyone can find actual proof. Even the laser checks mentioned in videos are all about the metal strings.
The pics in question from the (metal/bass string) factory presented as if an extrusion plant; the nylon-looking spools are inputs, like nylon core for bass strings and some/most are actually metal wire:
And here is what modern monofilament nylon extrusion plant line looks like:
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