Elixir Strings was born in 1995, the serendipitous result of unrelated attempts to develop a better variety of push-pull cable for industrial use. The first official Elixir String prototypes were sent to 5,000 musicians for testing, and after a final bit of feedback and a last tweak or two, we produced a coated string that was judged just right by the most demanding test equipment in the world: Musicians' ears.

Since then we've refined our ideas and today provide various combinations of original POLYWEB® Coating and ultra-thin NANOWEB® Coating strings for acoustic and electric guitar, bass, mandolin, and banjo. Each produces a different tone "flavor," but all are variations of the same basic idea: A microscopically thin, advanced polymer tube that surrounds the string to protect it from corrosion and dirt without making any contact whatsoever with the critical area between the windings where the "critical zone of tone" is found and each perfect note is born.

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