DOLFINOS Cello Grip-Foot
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The Cello Grip-Foot is designed to help your stand exactly where you want to have it, secure and safe, regardless of what type of floor you’re playing on and at what angle you position your cello. Like all our Swiss quality inventions, the Cello Grip-Foot enables you to focus on the music and performing at your highest level.
- The ultimate and hassle free endpin solution for all types of floors: parquet, linoleum, marble, fitted carpet
- Sticks even on dusty surfaces
- No more troublesome mounting of strings and threads that disturb your performance
- Provides stability and more freedom of movement
- Allows faster learning success - focus on your playing without worrying about the endpin slipping
- Customer-friendly and sustainable thanks to our changeable grip sole
- Suitable for standard endpins and threadened endpins (M6 size)
- Sound tested technology
How it works
The Grip-Foot Basic Edition consists of two main components: a solid plate for securing your instrument in place and a highly adhesive and long lasting hood that can be easily replaced once it wears out.
The lamellar structure was developed together with the Swiss Institute of Polymer Nanotechnology and creates maximum adhesion to any surface through a gecko-inspired micro lamella technology. The lamella hood adheres even on dusty floors. Unlike classic silicone surface or rubber feet, which only adhere well to clean or rough floors, dirt and dust can disappear between the lamellae, allowing enough friction to still adhere onto the surface.
The material of the hood, a thermoplastic elastomer, is manufactured in Germany. It is subject to the strictest controls and safety regulations and is dermatologically tested. Both parts can be easily separated by the customer and then returned to us for recycling. Together, we can also make a contribution to the careful use of energy and materials.
The development
The DOLFINOS Cello Grip-Foot was - like all our other products - developed in several R&D projects involving scientists (e.g. the Institute of Polymer Nanotechnology, Switzerland), musicians, students, pedagogues, luthiers, designers and cutting edge manufacturers in Switzerland.
The development of this ground-breaking equipment for cello, was inspired by the fact, that children are often not allowed to play with the original spiky endpins and therefore must play with these unflattering round rubber protectors. Further, stability when in the very beginning of the learning process is crucial, more stability allows one to focus solely on learning the basics.
