Pirastro Passione Solo Violin Strings, SET
By Pirastro
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Ball end E
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£120.00 | |
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Loop end E
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£120.00 |
* All strings are ball end, unless otherwise specified.
Description
Professional quality gut core strings. Medium tension only. Various metals wound on natural gut. Steel E.
Set of four strings in medium tension, ball or loop end E. The modern gut cored string. Old sound, modern stability.
These incredible strings are the latest strings from Pirastro designed to combine the best qualities of synthetic cored strings with the traditional gut sound. True gut sound with plenty of volume plus excellent tonal stability. Recommended rosin: Oliv/Evah Pirazzi.
The gut core of Passione strings is manufactured, wound and polished in the traditional way, by hand. The core sound is full, round and warm, with a complex overtone spectrum combining brilliance and clarity and a great power of projection.
Passione strings possess a fascinating diversity of sounds, which allows musicians to alter their tone as desired. Big and powerful sound with very easy response on all levels of the dynamic range Passione strings have a significantly reduced playing in time compared to other traditional gut strings.
Passione Solo strings are designed to produce extra brilliance and power for the soloist. They have a slightly higher tension than medium tension Passione strings.
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Specifications
- E - Silvery steel
- A - Aluminium on gut
- D - Silver on gut
- G - Silver on gut
- Made in Germany
Customer reviews:
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Keen Amateur
Keen Amateur
Grade 8+
Good but potentially fragile
Pros: Wonderful tone and warm sound
Cons: G string broke within 2 days of fitting. Stringzone were excellent and replaced it promptly, but 3 months later the G string broke again. Not really good enough for an £85 set of strings. I don't play as much as I used to anymore and so I expect at least 6 months from a set of strings.
Other: Tuning is pretty stable for gut strings, a change of location will need 30 minutes or so to settle in to the conditions and then shouldn't need much correction from there. Sadly I will not be buying again because of the frequency of breakages.
Professional
Professional
Pirastro Passione Solos Violin Strings
Pros: They have a very warm and powerful tone, with rich overtones too.
Cons: They are more difficult to control than synthetic core strings (eg Pirastro Obligato, Pirastro Evah Pirazzi), but typical of a gut core string in that respect.
Other: I'm not sure that paying the extra money for these strings is worth it, over just buying the standard Passiones. There's only one way for to find out, though, and that it try them for yourself!
Teacher
Grade 8+
Great string if you've patience to play in
Pros: These strings transformed the sound of my 18th century violin.
Cons: They take a good 2 weeks to play in, and agree with other comments re: getting accidental harmonics
Other: They are not such a bright sound as synthetic core strings and are softer under the fingers
Keen Amateur
Great tone but G string is not long life.
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Pros: These strings bring a warmth and resonance to my fiddle which is a German trade violin. Once they have settled, the pitch does not drift too much. A pleasure to play.
Cons: I have recently had to replace the G string somewhat sooner than usual as the winding detached from the core at the point that the string enters the peg box. As I put the replacement on, I noticed the winding loosening up in the same place so I anticipate that this string will also detach in a couple of months time.
Professional
