Passione Viola Strings (Handmade Gut Core)

The powerful gut string offering a warm core sound combined with a complex overtone spectrum.

Sound and Performance

• Complex Tonal Profile: Delivers a warm core sound with a complex overtone spectrum for brilliance and clarity.
• Powerful Projection: Features a big, powerful tone with great projection capabilities.
• Easy Response: Allows for immediate playability with significantly reduced playing-in time compared to traditional gut strings.
• Dynamic Diversity: Possesses a fascinating diversity of sounds, allowing musicians to alter tone as desired.

Construction and Stability

• Handmade Quality: Sheep gut core is manufactured, wound, and polished by hand in the traditional way.
• Increased Stability: Offers significantly increased tuning stability compared to traditional gut core strings.
• Tailpiece Compatibility: All strings come with a ball-end to facilitate installation.
• Steel A-String Option: The alternative steel core A-string (wound with chrome steel) offers a precise, focused tone up to the highest register and features a removable ball end.

Gauge and Tension Guide

• Thicker Gauges: Produce a more powerful sound and higher tension; suitable for use with a heavier bow and for soloists.
• Thinner Gauges: Produce a brighter sound with easier response and even intonation; suitable for chamber music.
• Tension Adjustment: Altering the gauge by 1/4 PM changes the tension by approximately 3%.

Available Options

• String Positions: A (Gut or Steel), D, G, C
• Winding Materials: Aluminum (A), Silver (D, G), Tungsten-Silver (C), Chrome Steel (Steel A)
• Packaging Styles: Envelope, Straight

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