Titanium Pro - Viola - Acoustic End-button
Acoustic End-button
F A S T E R Pro Titanium produces an open, powerful, and precise sound.
FASTER’s acoustic end-buttons are made, assembled, and calibrated by hand. This process requires six hours of highly specialized craftsmanship to deliver exceptional acoustic results.
F A S T E R PRO Titanium have been successfully tested on numerous fine violas. It processes the residual air produced in the instrument’s soundbox to create natural-sounding amplification.
F A S T E R PRO Titanium increases volume, acoustic stability under pressure and humidity variations, harmonics production, dynamic range, sound projection, tonal quality, ease of performance, and the lifetime of the strings. It also, in most cases it reduces wolf tones and in specific cases it helps to eliminate it, and provides other nice features that will undoubtedly make your life easier, at least, when performing.
A FASTER is forever. When you need to change your FASTER to another viola, simply purchase a replacement FASTER cone, adapt it to the new instrument and attach the FASTER.
With F A S T E R you will discover the new possibilities that your instrument offers to you.
Taxes / VAT and shipping not included
Replace the old end-button with FASTER Pro Titanium and adjust the supplied cone (angle: 1:30) to the hole of the instrument’s end-button.
Mark and cut the outer and inner part of the cone and place FASTER Pro Titanium in. The cone opening line must be positioned to the left or right of the instrument (#3).
Usable cone diameter: 9.8 to 7.2mm.
FASTER Pro Titanium is placed in the position shown in image #1.
Viewed from the back of the end-button, the white dot (a) should remain perpendicular to the top and the back as shown in image #2.
A silicone plug is included to prevent air leakage, but also to be able to perform sound tests.
SPECS
Total Length: 94mm.
Weight: ± 4,9gr.
Tube Diameter: OD 6mm x ID 4mm and OD 6mm x ID 4mm
Internal compressors: Gold-plated brass laminar compressors.
Titanium tube: made of seamless aerospace titanium alloy and heat treated.
End-button: Made of modified Poyiclon by adding carbon. It offers high chemical and abrasion resistance, including high strength and hardness properties. Physiologically inert.
Balancing ring: In 316 stainless steel of high hardness.
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Giuseppe Gibboni
Violin soloist – First prize Paganini International Violin Competition 2021– Genoa – Italy
If you are unsatisfied about your sound, don’t buy a new violin buy a FASTER!
It is a revolutionary masterpiece made by the Maestro Luthier Jose Maria Lozano.
Playing with a FASTER you will discover new nuances of your sound!
Thank you Jose Maria for this incredible innovation.
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Aldo Mata
Cello soloist – Professor at the Manuel Castillo Superior Conservatory of Music in Seville (Spain) - Professor at the Katarina Gurska Superior Center in Madrid (Spain).
No praise is exaggerated to extol the magnificent invention of the illustrious Spanish luthier José María Lozano, called FASTER. A system that extracts a clearer, more focused sound, with projection and great quality. My 1787 Nadotti cello never sounded better!
Thank you Maestro!
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Salvador Bolón
Cello Soloist – Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana – Valencia – Spain.
The FASTER Artica cello endpins by Maestro José María Lozano are a true revolution for the sound of the cello. From the first moment, you feel how the instrument offers you all the harmonics with a rich and wide sound that enhances all its colors. It is ideal for playing as a soloist, as in chamber music or in the orchestra. It offers you an incomparable feeling of freedom, being able to fix the cello on any surface. It is without a doubt a great evolution for our instrument that every cellist should be able to enjoy!
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Giulio Ferretti
First cello of the Solisti Aquilani – L’Aquila - Italia
The FASTER Artica 600 cello endpin give my cello a larger bouquet of harmonics, the sound is easier to emit and this is a great advantage!
Finally, the tungsten carbide tip is something extraordinary as it grips all surfaces giving great stability to the instrument. A beautiful technical innovation that has the great advantage of not changing the aesthetic appearance of the instrument simply by adding an extra touch of elegance.
Thank you José María for your invention!
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Fernando Arias
Cello Soloist - Professor of Cello at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid - Cello teacher at the Reina Sofía School of Music. Madrid - Spain
In a market in which, many times, small illusions in the increase in the amount of sound push us to acquire products that are not strictly necessary, I find that all the sound systems developed by José María Lozano (Cello endpin, Stoppers and cello end-butons), produce an objective and noticeable improvement in the quantity, warmth and quality of the cello’s sound.
The FASTER Sound Systems brand develops products that enhance your instrument in a surprising way and before considering that an instrument does not meet your needs, a visit to Maestro Lozano’s workshop or the Faster Sound systems online store seems inescapable.
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Jo-Jo Ma
Cello Soloist
Thank you Jose Maria for the wonderful FASTER Artica 600 Silver cello endpin.
What a wonderful invention!
Wish you all the best.
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Eduardo del Castillo
Violin Teacher – Guadalajara – Spain
My violins are equipped with silver and titanium FASTER.
From the first moment, I was able to verify that my instruments had gained in projection and harmonic richness.
FASTER helps the musician to get a sound with less effort and with excellent results hitherto unknown.
My most sincere congratulations to Maestro José María Lozano, for finding what he has always sought, “the excellence of sound”.
I recommend FASTER to all violinists.
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Marta Roca
Violin Soloist – Madrid – Spain
I just installed FASTER Silver on my violin and it sounds like I have a Strad, wow!
Now the sound is louder, cleaner, more balanced, rounder and more bombastic. I love it!
I feel like I’m going to be heard in the last seat in the theater!
Thanks for everything Jose Maria.
