Pirastro Passione Violin Strings

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 .

The 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.

Now the PASSIONE SOLO for violin adds another way to express musical ideas. The range of dynamics has been extended so that a soloist tone with a radiant overtone spectrum is available. This focus allows musicians an effortless presence in the orchestra and the solo violin develops a noble projection within the orchestra.

The violin set PASSIONE SOLO captivates with its precious smoothness and effortless response. The set combines a radiating beautiful sound with strong power and brilliance.