mf | core Violin Hybrid

Four bars decide it. With or without a cable.

The mf | core violin Hybrid is the same instrument as the one we build most often, with a pickup that belongs to it from the start. In your hands it feels familiar: the same measurements, the same string length, the same posture. What is new is the surface under your fingers, and what happens once the bow is on the string.

What happens in those four bars

The response comes without resistance. You start the note and it is there, in pianissimo, on the G string, on a cold morning. Doing and feeling sit closer together than you are used to, and that is the point where any hesitation goes.

High on the E string it turns brilliant without turning shrill, and it carries through an orchestra. Lower down it stays full, and it does not saturate when you really give it everything.

The pickup

The Cordasonus pickup is built in. No retrofitting, no glue, no box on the body. A proprietary treated crystal from a German ceramics technology company sits in the bridge and registers pressure changes there and nothing else.

Acoustically this changes nothing. Unplugged, the instrument sounds exactly like one without a pickup.

Amplified you get a natural tone without the hardness of conventional piezo systems, a frequency response from 10 Hz to 80 kHz and low feedback sensitivity. Connects through a 6.3 mm jack, no battery.

And one particular feature: the pickup rotates in the bridge. In 45 degree steps you change the tonal character, mid-performance, with no tools and no equalizer.

What it is made of

Carbon fiber is pure carbon, drawn into filaments seven thousandths of a millimetre across. A material that was reserved for aerospace for decades. We build violins from it.

The body is made by vacuum infusion, in one piece, with no glue seam. Then comes the part you look at every day: sanded, lacquered, sanded again, lacquered again, finally polished by hand. Two full lacquer cycles, each one checked separately.

That effort is the reason the pattern shifts instead of sitting flat. Under stage lighting your instrument looks different with every change, and people will ask you about it.

Alternatively the Orchestra Finish: a wood appearance to your specification, colour, flame, one-piece or two-piece back. For anyone who wants to blend visually into a string ensemble, and for anyone who simply prefers the look.

Specification

• Pirastro Evah PirazziStandard strings, powerful and complex. Three alternative sets are available as an upgrade.
• Wittner fine tuning pegsYou tune at the peg, precisely and without slipping. No four fine tuners on the tailpiece, no sticking in dry air.
• CITES-free composite fingerboardFeels like ebony, lasts considerably longer. And no protected wood to raise questions at a border.
• Cordasonus pickupBuilt into the bridge, 6.3 mm jack, no battery, rotates in 45 degree steps.
• Grooves in the lower ribsSo your shoulder rest stays where you put it instead of sliding off in the middle of a movement.
• 5 year warranty on the bodyYour security. The actual service life is far longer. Carbon fiber does not fatigue, and nobody yet knows where the limit lies.

What you can choose

• Five stringsA low C added. For crossover, studio work and everything beyond the classical range.
• Orchestra FinishWood appearance to your specification.
• Milo Stamm Royal bridgeHarder wood, more overtones, more brilliance.
• Anima Nova carbon sound postA fitted sound post sits where it sits. This one adjusts in length inside the instrument, to within hundredths of a millimetre. You change the tension between top and back whenever you want.

Delivery takes about two weeks, up to four with Orchestra Finish. If your configuration is in stock it ships at once. Send us a short message and we will give you the date.