Pirastro Passione viola strings

Pirastro as the world-wide leading manufacturer of strings has gained extensive knowledge since 1798. During all this time gut strings have been considered as the most beautiful sounding strings. Today Pirastro offers an alternative to the needs of violists with its new Passione for viola : The gut string for the 21 st century!

Playability

• very short playing-in-time, nearly the same as for synthetic core strings
• substantial increase in tuning stability
• well-balanced set harmony
• easy response on all levels of the dynamic range
• the accuracy of contact point is easily manageable, similar to Obligato and Evah Pirazzi
• easier right hand articulation and tone attack

Sound Characteristics

• typical beauty of gut string sound
• fascinating diversity of sounds , which allows musicians to alter their tone as desired
• core sound is full, round and warm and has a complex overtone spectrum causing brilliance and clarity and a great power of projection
• sound can be big and powerful as well as gentle and tender

Set composition

• A gut/aluminum
• D gut/silver
• G gut/silver
• C gut/tungsten/silver

Give also a try to the A steel/chrome A string, the universal viola steel string for the future!
This viola A-string has an inspiring warm and brilliant tone together with a very easy response and great power of projection. For a steel string it has a remarkable full and round sound and a complex overtone spectrum. You can combine this Passione A-string with all existing and different kind of D-, G- and C-strings.

The choice of the three different gauges allows musicians to choose their preferred gauge and makes it possible to respond to the individual tension and sound requirements of their instruments.

As a rule of thumb :

• the thicker (Hard string) a string is, the more powerful is the sound and the higher is the tension
• a thinner (Soft string) string will produce a brighter sound, however this does not mean that the sound is weaker or looses power

The ball of this Passione A-string can easily be removed if a loop-end string is desired.