ZMT Cello Tail Piece

ZMT Cello Tail PieceThe package includes a ZMT Tailpiece, a Kevlar tailgut, Specialized ZMT Fine tuners, and string saddles (for strings without fine tuners)

Benefits of ZMT Cello Tail Piece

Enhanced Sound Production

ZMT is a revolutionary tailpiece design for instruments of the cello family. It dramatically enhances sound production, allowing you to discover and enjoy your instrument's full potential.

By generating more symbiotic vibrations between the strings, bridge, and sound post, ZMT creates more resonance throughout the whole body of the instrument. As a result, your instrument is more responsive and produces a broader spectrum of overtones and a more balanced timbre.

Broader overtone spectrum

Extended string after length reflects more energy, enriching and supporting the basic tone. This results in a richer, more profound, and extended vibration across the entire overtone series. The tone evolves faster, carries better, and lasts longer as a consequence of that extended vibration.

Faster and clearer response from your instrument

With ZMT, your instrument responds faster to vibration and reaches optimal resonance with much less effort. The slightest change in bowing produces a different sound immediately, which makes playing more intuitive and searching for that perfect sound much more effortless.

Wider dynamic range

Besides offering more resonance for a richer and more powerful fortissimo and adding colour and stability to your pianissimo, you gain more control over volume and tone colour throughout the dynamic range. 

From softest to loudest, ZMT opens up new possibilities for your instrument.

Reduction of wolf tones

Many instruments suffer from wolf tones (tones with highly amplified overtones caused by the instrument's natural resonance) or "dead" tones, which carry less and have no sustain. ZMT helps reduce these differences by making a more stable and evenly dispersed sympathetic string vibration across the entire tonal range. Although every instrument resonates differently, we have confirmed a significant reduction of wolf tones after installing ZMT in more than 80% of cases.

Strings for ZMT tailpieces are available on special order. Please be aware that they may take a little longer to arrive than other strings.