Plamen mentioned in one of his reports from Bamberg that Lenzner is now called Fisoma. #Having just had a look at the string listings at Saitenkatalog.de, I can confirm that. #They list four types of Fisoma strings:
- Silver
- Silk and Steel
- 80/20 Bronze
- Flatwound
The peculiar thing about this is that the successor of the old "bronce" strings, which are the strings used for the Lenzner Consort set, are clearly the ones labelled "80/20 Bronze". #Anybody who has seen the Lenzner bronze strings will have seen that they are obviously phosphor bronze and not 80/20 bronze (aka brass). #The photo on the new packs also looks to have the colour of phosphor bronze, not brass. #This suggests that Lenzner/Fisoma have no idea what "80/20 bronze" means. #I wonder whether these are indeed the old strings in new packs, or whether they make them differently.
The other interesting info is that the new packs finally list gauges, which Lenzner never did before. #They offer two sets of "80/20 bronze":
- light: .009 .013 .022 .032
- medium: .010 .014 .025 .035
Finally, another curious aspect is that a quick search on the web suggests that Fisoma is not actually a new name at all, but rather a brand name used in the old GDR days.
Martin
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