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Ever wondered where your strings come from? Take a fascinating 2.5 minute behind-the-scenes journey into D'Addario & Co's Farmingdale, New York factory -- the world's largest string-making company. This short film, shown exclusively on The Violin Channel, takes you inside the process of making a stranded-steel core string -- from the wire-drawing, all the way through to quality control and packaging. Proud to make every string from start to finish in the USA, in the one location, the D'Addario family come from an extensive line of string-makers. Beginning in 1680 in Salle, Italy and emigrating to New York in 1905, the family company today includes many 8th and 9th generation D'Addario's -- including CEO, Jim. Music: Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major -- featuring VC 'Young Artist' Benjamin Beilman & Yekwon Sunwoo