The Rotosound Blog

James How with Curved Air (top) before boarding on a US tour and (below) outside Ronnie Scott’s club with Hookfoot More high profile players start using..Read More

A visit to the Japanese Trade Fair in Tokyo found that Rotosound’s efforts to export to Japan over several years had now given fruition with 100..Read More

A booklet for the Rotosound ‘Rhythmlite’ unit True to the spirit of the times, The Denmark Street shop sold Image lighting (those groovy psychedelic oil wheels..Read More

Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright with Alan Marcuson in 1967. Pink Floyd were in Abbey Road Studios during this shoot recording Piper..Read More

Jimi Hendrix & Noel Redding talk strings with Alan Marcuson March 1st, 1967. Rotosound’s reputation for quality strings that delivered a knock-out tone brought in a..Read More

A new, psychedelic design is introduced for packaging and catalogues The companies of James How and Company, James How Music Strings Limited, and Orchestral & Jazz..Read More

Jimmy Page using the Rotosound Fuzz 19/6/69 Paris “Tous En Scene”

An original Rotosound Fuzz MKIII which belongs to Ant Macari Rotosound began to augment the catalogue with other musical accessories including fuzz pedals which would go..Read More

Rotosound’s Denmark Street shop with James How, Pete Wilshire, Alan Marcuson Alongside the Rotosound string company James How opened a showroom in London’s famous Denmark Street…Read More

British jazz bassist Spike Heatley sinks his teeth into the new Rotosound strings

One of the first string winding machines in the Orchestral & Jazz Strings workshop

As more and more players sought the use of these roundwound strings James and Ron decided to create a new brand which summed up their innovation. Highlighting..Read More