Now Also Used Warchal Strings Have Their Values

Have you ever wondered what materials are used to produce strings? Our strings are mainly produced from synthetic cores and a whole range of metals. We use high-quality aluminum, stainless steel, brass, wolfram, pure silver as well as a variety of special alloys.

Prices of these materials are rocketing these days. This is due to an increased demand in industrial production but also due to the fact that they are limited in supply and will one day be depleted, in the same way as the world´s oil supplies.

For example, silver cannot be replaced in production of high-quality strings. Each year hundreds of kilograms of silver end up in landfills and in incinerators just because nobody has been considering their recycling. Once they cannot be used anymore for playing, they are simply thrashed by us, the musicians. Thus we, the musicians ourselves contribute for having to pay increasingly more for high-quality strings in the future.

Warchal has been on the market for a relatively short time, but we are the first to come with the idea of recycling strings. It is definitely not an easy task. Strings are light, and though weighing just a few grams, they consist of a number of different materials. It is rather difficult to separate these materials and to collect them in such an amount and purity so that their recycling would be profitable. Nevertheless, we have decided to go into it.

In spite of our reasonable assuming that the costs of recycling will exceed the profit, we want to buy used strings from you. We believe that it is our duty to build the future of our planet in a responsible manner.

As yet our only major problem with collection of used strings is to do it in a way which would be profitable to you, our customers. We have been working on a system allowing us to exchange used strings for new ones. There are still some details to be solved. But one thing is certain now. Namely, given the prices of postage, it would be cost-ineffective to send us, for example, just one violin string set.

What can you do?

You can start to collect our used strings because from now on also the used Warchal strings have their values. You can join the recycling system as soon as it has been launched. We anticipate the launch in a few weeks.