D'Addario & Company
HQ US30% share
World's largest musical-instrument-accessories maker; dominant guitar/orchestral strings, vertically integrated down to drawing its own music wire.
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Instrument Strings (Steel / Phosphor-Bronze / Nylon)
Strings for guitars, pianos and orchestral instruments.
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Source countries
3
Companies
1
Goods affected
0
Claims on record
What depends on it
Goods that need this input
1 essential American goods rely on instrument strings (steel / phosphor-bronze / nylon) somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Where it comes from
Source countries
Share of global supply, by country.
| Country | Share of supply |
|---|---|
| ATAustria | 36% |
| MXMexico | 25% |
| DEGermany (Federal Republic of Germany) | 18% |
| DKDenmark, except Greenland | 7% |
| GBUnited Kingdom | 4% |
| ITItaly | 3% |
| FRFrance | 2% |
| CNChina | 2% |
Who makes it
Supplier companies
3 companies produce instrument strings (steel / phosphor-bronze / nylon).
Thomastik-Infeld
HQ AT
Austrian maker of orchestral strings; first to make steel violin strings.
W. L. Gore & Associates
HQ US
Maker of Gore-Tex/PTFE products; its Elixir brand pioneered polymer-coated guitar strings (1997), spun from research into coated push-pull cables.