D'Addario

D'Addario has been making strings in New York since the family moved the business from Italy, and the numbers are the point: it is one of the largest string manufacturers in the world, supplying everything from the XT coated sets to the NYXL range designed to hold tuning under heavy bending. Strings rarely make headlines, so D'Addario appears in our archive where it belongs — in setup and maintenance guides, gift round-ups and the spec sheets of new instruments shipped factory-strung.