Black Diamond

These folks have been manufacturing strings since 1890. A string maker that manages to stay alive for over a 110 years must have done something right...

Black Diamond, which has been run by the Cavanaugh family for three generations, may be a company with a long tradition, but it is nonetheless open to new ideas.

The strings are all manufactured by the company itself - no stock is bought from, nor is anything sold to other manufacturers. And Black Diamond is well advised in doing so. After all, if you want to excel in something, you ought to stick all of your energy into it and not be distracted. And uniformity is important as well.

The real secret is in the core. They pull our high-carbon steel core to the optimum playing tension, producing a string that opens up smoother and holds its tone longer. The core is the pulse of the string. It?s the heartbeat.

The Cavanaugh family is in the string biz in the third generation, because one thing is more important with string than anything; and this is continuity?.