Thomastik-Infeld is an Austrian company based in Vienna that develops and produces strings and rosins for bowed and fretted string instruments, including the violin, viola, cello, contrabass, guitar, and bass guitar.
Other string brands from the company include: Many famous violinists, including Itzhak Perlman, Hilary Hahn, and Isaac Stern, have used Thomastik-Infeld strings at some point in their career.
[1] In 1919, Dr. Franz Thomastik, a violin maker, and Otto Infeld, a civil engineer, decided to found a company.
The company was run by Peter Infeld from 1994 until his death on April 15, 2009 at 67 years old.
[3] As part of the campaign, Thomastik-Infeld partnered with Tonic to launch a practice challenge for participants to win sets of the new strings.