Savarez strings

[Belinda Daughtry]

Does anyone know of a good source for Savarez strings in the U.S.?

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[Barbara Currier]

I get my mine from Olympic Instruments, i.e. Alden and Cali.

Barbara

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Belinda Daughtry <bgd...@charter.net> wrote:

Does anyone know of a good source for Savarez strings in the U.S.?

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[MITC...@aol.com]

If Cali and Alden (Olympic) are still selling strings, they'd definitely be the best bet.

 

Otherwise, I don't think you can get Savarez gut strings in the US. The only other practical way I know of to buy them is from Arpeges in Paris. Here's the Savarez strings page from their website: http://www.arpeges.fr/instruments/CORDES-19/CORDES-491/CORDES-INSTRUMENT-ANCIEN-1382/. And here's the email:  arp...@arpeges.fr. As I recall, there are some salespeople there who speak good English, although I normally communicate with them in French. The Arpeges folks are very efficient and friendly...the only downside to buying your Savarez strings from them is the painful French export duty on sales to countries outside of France...so be forewarned.

 

Mitch Gordon

[Bruno Fournier]

I communicate directly with the french rep for my lute strings, being that only SAVAREZ guitar strings are readily available in Canada, but not the other types of strings.  They have always sent to me directly without any problems, I would imagine for HG it would be sensibly the same procedure:

 

Philippe Durand

SAVAREZ SA
5, Avenue Barthélémy Thimonnier
69643 Caluire et Cuire
FRANCE
Tel : (33) 04.37.40.32.00
Fax : (33) 04.37.40.32.10
email : sava...@aol.com

 

I'm sure you can write to them in english, every french businessman speaks english, being unfortunately the language of business....

 

Bruno Cognyl-Fournier

Montreal, Canada

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Belinda Daughtry <bgd...@charter.net> wrote:

Does anyone know of a good source for Savarez strings in the U.S.?

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[J.F. "Maxou" HEINTZEN]

Hi folks,

 

may be I'm late in this topic, but we had some problems with SAVAREZ strings one year ago. They changed the way to make it : they asked to someone else to make it under their name.

Jean-Claude BOUDET told me that with some SAVAREZ brh 68, 71 ou 74, it's sometimes impossible to put the cotton, even with rosin. He had to use some abrasive paper on the string at the place where the cotton must be put.

The people from SAVAREZ didn't admit the fact, but later they recognised they use a subcontractor. May be they try several differents, now, they are making the strings in Germany, where JC Boudet is buying the strings he uses.

 

If some SAVAREZ strings look strange, ry some abrasive paper (gently !)

and keep on turning !

Maxou

 

J.F. "Maxou" HEINTZEN
le bourg
03360 Valigny
04.70.66.60.01 / 06.87.43.63.65