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With our innovative technology and thanks to your support Pirastro’s Obligato and Wondertone Solo and Evah Pirazzi strings have become the top quality synthetic core strings creating a stunning demand from musicians worldwide.

And today there is a fresh and young trend among classical violinists searching for a full and complex sound of traditional gut core violin strings like Eudoxa and Oliv. Pirastro has picked up this trend developing a fascinating new violin string set called Passione.

The New Gut Violin String from Pirastro:   PASSIONE The unique gut string for the future! Since some time, a new trend evolved especially amongst young classical violinists who search for a full and complex sound to start to experiment with violin strings with a gut core. Baroque strings or gut strings for a historical set up are not meant here, but modern gut strings for the classical violinist in the tradition of our Eudoxa and Oliv strings. As the leading gut string manufacturer in the world Pirastro has now picked up this trend and developed a new gut core string called Passione.

Our development of the Passione aimed at reducing the playing-in-time of traditional gut strings and to increase their tuning stability without loosing the beauty of the gut sound. The gentle processing of the gut core is key to the conservation of the ravishing beauty of gut strings’ sound. Our expertise has been developed since 1798 and has been carefully protected over generations within Pirastro’s employees.

The combination in manufacturing of modern synthetic and traditional gut technology made it possible to retain the sound beauty of gut core strings and to increase significantly the tuning stability and the break-in-time. Passione strings possess a fascinating diversity of sounds, which allows musicians to alter their tone as desired. To such an outstanding extent this is still only possible with gut core strings. The core sound is full, round and warm and has a complex overtone spectrum causing brilliance and clarity and a great power of projection.

Passione’s sound can be big and powerful as well as gentle and tender. Passione is a modern reliable gut string for the demanding violin professional. The set is well-balanced; the response is easy on all levels of the dynamic range. The accuracy of contact point is easily manageable, similar to Obligato, Wondertone Solo and Evah Pirazzi.

Gauges and technical information:

The A, D and G strings are available in five gauges with a difference of ¼ PM each. Please refer to the table below. The E string “silvery steel” is available in 25.5 and 26 and 26.7.

This plurality of gauges allows musicians to choose their preferred gauge and makes it possible to respond to the individual tension requirements of their instruments.

As a rule of thumb:

• The thicker a string is, the more powerful is the sound and the higher is the tension.
• A thinner string will produce a brighter sound, however this does not mean that the sound is weaker or looses power.

There is only the medium gauge available as a set:

Art. # 219021 – Violin Passione Set Medium E Ball-end packaged in envelope.
Art. # 219022 – Violin Passione Set Medium E Ball-end packaged straight.
Art. # 219025 – Violin Passione Set Medium E Loop-end packaged in envelope.
Art. # 219026 – Violin Passione Set Medium E Loop-end packaged straight.

All A, D and G strings come with a ball end in order to facilitate the installation.
The E string is available with loop or ball end.

The length of the coloured peg end of the Passione G string is different than the length of the A and D strings. This is on purpose and part of the construction of the G string. The special length of the G string’s colour winding at the peg end Prevents the string from breaking in the peg box. At the latest after two to three days the stretching process will be finalized. As a result the silk winding will no longer reach over the nut. We have made numerous tests with this special G on various violins all differing in size and the string has always fitted.On some violins it takes longer, with other violins the string even fits from the beginning.

There is no need to change the height of the bridge for using Passione strings.

We advise to use our “Oliv/Evah” rosin (Art. No. 9001) with the Passione set.

The strings come in envelopes (BTL; last digit of the article # is a 1 or 5) or
straight (LANG; last digit of the article # is a 2 or 6).

Pirastro’s Passione color code at the tailpiece end: White with Havana spiral
Pirastro tone color at the peg end: E – green; A – black; D – rose-colored; G – brown

Comment from Wren Canzoneri about PASSIONE Violin strings:

'My congratulations to you and Pirastro on these new strings,
which I think are remarkable. Modulation of dynamics is the best
of any strings I have used in many years. These strings are fun
to play, and make me sound more expressive with less physical effort.'

Evah Pirazzi Double Bass The tremendous success of our Obligato strings for double bass has encouraged us to further develop double bass strings with a synthetic core. The result is our new double bass string set Evah Pirazzi „BASS“. This set is a hybrid set, suitable for both Arco and Pizzicato playing. Evah Pirazzi strings offer outstanding tuning stability, a very short playing-in-time and an astonishing resistance to rolling. Similar to the Obligato bass strings, Evah Pirazzi ’BASS’ Strings are resistant to changes in humidity and temperature. All strings are wound with chrome steel and smoothly polished.

The big, powerful, warm and round sound of the strings is combined with an accentuated low frequency spectrum and an exceptional resonance with a good sustain. The response is quick allowing for easy left and right hand articulation. Due to the phenomenal projection of the Evah Pirazzi bass strings the beautiful richness of the range of colors and nuances can be heard even in big concert halls. The development of these bass strings was aimed at producing a sound that is as close to gut strings as possible.

Evah Pirazzi ’BASS’ is an ideal string for musicians playing both Arco and Pizzicato. First and foremost the bow response is excellent and when playing pizzicato the long sustain fully and freely evolves.

Pirastro’s color code:

Comment from Jonathan Burnstein about EVAH PIRAZZI Double Bass strings:

'These strings are INCREDIBLE!! I play them in the orchestra (Seattle Symphony)
and they speak more easily than any other strings on the market. '