Leatherwood Rosin
We offer the full range of premium, Australian-crafted Leatherwood Rosin, available in standard blends or custom ratios to perfectly match your instrument and playing style.
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Leatherwood Bespoke Violin/Viola/Cello Rosin
The different rosin blends offer you a precise way to enhance the sound of your instrument. By choosing our Supple or Crisp recipes, or even a Bespoke blend, you can optimise the brightness, clarity, warmth and richness of your sound, and vary the strength of initial attack on the string.
They can create recipes to suit varying playing contexts or repertoire, such as when playing as a concerto soloist, in chamber music or in an orchestra.
Your bespoke rosin will generally last 2-5 years with intensive use.
Supple Blend
A warm and softer sound, consistent traction that feels velvety and rich; this recipe maintains a reliably sharp attack on the string.
The supple blend generates a more powerful and focused sound from a softer and lighter bow with less ‘bite’. Supple also enhances the sounds of a deep / warm sounding instrument by making it sound more resonant. Supple can also ‘soften’ an instrument which is too loud, bright or one-dimensional in sound.
Crisp Blend
A decisive attack, firm traction and crisp sautille; this recipe creates an undeniably forthright sound through a glassier texture.
The crisp blend works well with an instrument with lots of resonance but is a little ‘woolly’ in sound, offering it greater clarity and articulation. Crisp also assists bows or techniques that struggle to achieve a clear and articulate spiccato or sautille. Crisp can also assist small student or cheap instruments, by enhancing their sound to be brighter and sometimes louder; and beginning students find it easier to articulate with crisp.
Bespoke Blend
Personally customised blends:
Have a personally customised rosin recipe made for you to suit your exacting needs. We can further customise your recipe by changing the strength of initial attack, the heaviness of the texture and the level of brightness and warmth. We can also make recipes specific to unusual instrument such as electric and folk instruments.
75% crisp – “This bespoke recipe is the perfect blend for the soloist. It focuses on power, projection and clarity, with a slightly thicker texture that will highlight warm resonances.”
75% supple – “If you love the warmth and depth of the supple blend, this recipe gives you added clarity and bite to the thicker texture
5050 – “A perfect mix of both supple and crisp recipes, this rosin recipe will have a balanced texture and sound palette”
| Violin | Crisp | Supple | 75% Supple + 25% Crisp | 50% Supple + 50% Crisp | 25% Supple + 75% Crisp |
| price | $ 89.50 | $ 89.50 | $ 99.50 | $ 99.50 | $ 99.50 |
| Viola | Crisp | Supple | 75% Supple + 25% Crisp | 50% Supple + 50% Crisp | 25% Supple + 75% Crisp |
| price | $ 89.50 | $ 89.50 | $ 99.50 | $ 99.50 | $ 99.50 |
| Cello | Crisp | Supple | 75% Supple + 25% Crisp | 50% Supple + 50% Crisp | 25% Supple + 75% Crisp |
| price | $ 89.50 | $ 89.50 | $ 99.50 | $ 99.50 | $ 99.50 |
Leatherwood Concerto Violin/Viola/Cello Rosin
Concerto is your luxurious, super-premium rosin for intense soloistic playing. Designed for the soloist, power, focus and projection are prominent with minimal dust and sound deterioration.
After years of rosin recipe refinement for string players all over the world, the Leatherwood Bespoke Rosin team have worked to create the ultimate rosin recipe for the Concerto Soloist and International Competition Performer.
When performing in these settings, there are even more demands on the rosin such as projecting the sound to all corners of the concert hall, conveying warmth of sound up close and far away, and the ability of the rosin to endure a long performance with minimal deterioration to the sound quality right through to the last note!
The result is a rosin that offers a very powerful and clear attack on the string, with the string vibrating at it’s maximum capability from the very beginning of the bow movement. This rosin improves sound endurance, overall projection, power, with a warm undertone.
This rosin is created for:
– Concerto repertoire – late classical period and beyond
– Performance in large concert halls and large scale concerts
– Performance in International Competitions and Auditions
– Strong projection of clarity, warmth, and nuance of tone colour
– Reducing sound deterioration through rosin build up
Our rosin makers have spent years refining sound and response characteristics through our Bespoke Range, string players have been able to adjust the Attack, Clarity, Traction, Texture to suit their playing.
To create Concerto, we searched, experimented, examined, and found new and unique combination of resins and waxes. We have worked to maximise the sound potential of this rosin with our partners in Japan, including renowned soloists Mayu Kishima (laureate Isaac Stern,Cologne, Queen Elizabeth, Wieniawski Competitions) and Minami Yoshida (laureate of Joachim, Sibelius and Montréal Competitions).
FAQ: How is CONCERTO different to Leatherwood’s other rosins:
Concerto rosin deserves no less than the most luxurious materials, craftsmanship and presentation. Having developed this recipe with a team of Japanese soloists, we have been inspired to weave artistic Japanese styles into the presentation of this rosin, including the burnt timber technique of Yakisugi, or Shou Sugi Ban.
Leather: Deep Charcoal Premium Australian Leather
Wood: Yakisugi – Australian Cypress Pine
Rosin: Concerto – Soloistic Intensity
Leatherwood Bespoke Rosin is grateful to the support and input from our Japanese Partner Hiroaki Yura, who collaborated with us to produce this rosin.
| Concerto Violin | $109 |
| Concerto Viola | $109 |
| Concerto Cello | $109 |