Introducing Dolfinos, Switzerland
Creating highest quality ergonomic and comfort solutions with true value for musicians on the basis of fair pay and fair treatment in a sustainable global economy.
Domestic Customers: Contact Bay Fine Strings
for a consultation in-person or remote try-out
For consumers who think our prices are too high for the value they get and that our products are either calculated poorly or driven by making a profit on the cost of the end-user, please read about pricing basics below.
Dolfinos Systems for Violin & Viola: Limited Air Edition, Carbon Edition, Pure Edition
Dolfinos Miniput and Chinrests: Vienna, Berlin, Venezia, Lisbon, Toledo
Dolfinos Accessories: Cello Grip Foot, Pure Grip for Violin & Viola
Health Benefits
In 2013 we started with our investigations and realized that 60 – 70% of all professional violinists and violists suffer from issues with their skin, muscles, nerves, tendons, and skeleton. Our goal was to recognize musicians as super athletes and provide them with high standing equipment which match their level of professionalism and reducing their pains and the disabling impact of their posture problems.
Our technology is based on Electromyographic studies (muscle activity measurements during performance) and systematic motion video analysis done by the ETH Exercise Physiology Lab at the Department of Health Sciences in Zurich. With our innovations we can help musicians visibly reduce their pains and tensions.
Only after being on the market for 1 year, DOLFINOS was granted to a German music professional from a German Arbeitsamt for orthopaedic reasons.
Dolfinos on Pricing
See what our customers say about the benefits that come with a DOLFINOS:
"In the last years, I was searching for a better instrument. And now this: with the DOLFINOS my instrument has become what I was looking for. That is so amazing as it saved me a lot of money and time-consuming travellings."
"Since I play on a DOLFINOS I can express myself much better, I think this is because it is so comfortable. It just does a good job so I can fully rely on it. But the best is: I experience our long rehearsals in the opera no more as exhausting. And I don't need to drive to my physio every other week anymore!"
All the fear and stress has gone with this shoulder rest, it just never falls off.
"My teacher says: your posture is much better and so is your performance."
"Since I got my DOLFINOS from my parents they do not need to breath down my neck anymore because it i so much easier to control the instrument. I made huge progress and this motivates me to stick to it."
"The day I started to play with my DOLFINOS I felt much less tension in my body. My neck feels free and my migraine has gone. No more painkillers!"
"It’s just beguiling how my instrument sounds now. I have so much fun with my DOLFINOS."
STATEMENT:
When Patricia Kopatchinskaja first tried one of our first chin & shoulder rest prototypes, she said "Oh this feels like the best running shoe I ever had. It fits so well that I would like to immediately go for my round."
Imagine you really, really love to run every day with your running shoe. Let's say for at least 1 hour a day. What kind of running shoes would you choose? I guess you would not hesitate to splurge on a pair of shoes with more advanced technologies that go for 200 – 400 Euros, right?
And take a moment to shortly think about the fact that the price for these shoes is completely based on people and circumstances we call low-cost production environments, where human beings, like us, risk their health, lose their dignity and the best part of their life.