Eric, in response to your question, a good violin responds very differently to different types of strings. The ones that sound great on my old violin sound terrible on the new one. On a poor quality instrument, all strings sound almost the same.

I checked out the Quinn Violins string searcher, and it did not have the color combinations on my strings. I've sent an email to Kevin George. I do have pictures of the string ends I can email if anyone here cares to see them. Thanks for all the help, and I would appreciate any other ideas.

Al