D'addario EJ46C strings with a long family history
The D'addario EJ46C comes from a brand whose origins go back to Salle, a small Italian village in the province of Pescara. Within the D’Addario family, farming and string making had already played a central role for generations, and in those days strings were still made from sheep and pig gut.
After the 1905 earthquake, Rocco and Carmine D’Addario left for New York. There, the family name continued to grow in string production, first through importing and selling strings and later through their own production under the name C. D’addario using traditional family methods.
From traditional strings to guitar strings
When the guitar became very popular in the early 20th century, the D’Addario family responded and had been making guitar strings since the early 1930s. During the Second World War, the invention of nylon brought another change, after which the family began producing nylon strings.
With the rise of Rock ‘n Roll, demand increasingly shifted toward metal strings. That development led to new steps within the family, including Archaic Musical String Mfg Co. and later Darco, before the strings were marketed under the company’s own name J. D’Addario & Company in 1974.
D'addario as an established name
Since 1994, D’Addario has been based in Farmingdale, New York. The company is still owned by the family, with 13 family members working in the business. That gives the D'addario EJ46C a background strongly connected to generations of expertise in string production.
So with D'addario, you are choosing more than just a set of strings; you are choosing a name that has been closely tied to the development of strings for various instruments for decades.
